Prediction of Cancer From Psychological Measures

Suinn, Richard M.

doi:10.1207/s15327965pli0203_14

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“…These problems are discussed in detail in a Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry (e.g. Amelang, 1991;Cooper & Faragher, 1991;Derogatis, 1991;Fox, 1991;Grunberg & Singer, 1991;Schüler & Fox, 1991;Suinn, 1991;Temoshok, 1991;van der Ploeg, 1991). The present authors aimed to investigate empirically the replicability of the findings using similar (but not identical) methods to those of Grossarth-Maticek.…”

Section: Personality As a Predictor Of Diseasementioning

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Personality and Disease: Correlations of Multiple Trait Scores with Various Illnesses

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Correlations between personality measures and self-reported data on health status were examined in a sample of 5133 men and women, aged between 40 and 65. A wider range of diseases was studied than is typical. Small but theoretically meaningful correlations with personality were found for some diseases. Personality syndromes of Emotional Lability, Type A Behaviour, Behavioural Control, Locus of Control over Diseases and Psychoticism were distinguished factorially. Emotional Lability appeared to be the most robust predictor of general disease vulnerability. Some small but significant associations between specific illnesses and Type A and Behavioural Control were also found.

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Section: Personality As a Predictor Of Diseasementioning

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Personality and Disease: Correlations of Multiple Trait Scores with Various Illnesses

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“…It was dominated by a full-scale reproduction of the laboratory that was set up after retirement by the late Hans Eysenck to continue his research on intelligence, personality, fatal diseases and the causes and effects of smoking (Bunn, 2001). Serious criticisms of this work were published during the 1990s (Amelang, 1991, 1993, 1997; Amelang et al, 1996; Amelang and Schmidt-Rathjens, 1992; Cooper and Faragher, 1991; Derogatis, 1991; Fox, 1991, 1995; Kiecolt-Glaser and Chee, 1991; Lee, 1991; Levy, 1991; Pelosi and Appleby, 1992, 1993; Schuler and Fox, 1991; Spiegel, 1991; Suinn, 1991; Temoshok, 1991; Van Der Ploeg, 1991, 1992; Van Der Ploeg and Kleijn, 1993; Van Der Ploeg and Vetter, 1993; Vetter, 1993), but were never investigated by any appropriate authority. I hope to demonstrate in this review how the continued influence of this research mocks not only medicine and psychology but also science in general.…”

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Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal

Pelosi¹

2019

J Health Psychol

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During the 1980s and 1990s, Hans J Eysenck conducted a programme of research into the causes, prevention and treatment of fatal diseases in collaboration with one of his protégés, Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. This led to what must be the most astonishing series of findings ever published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature with effect sizes that have never otherwise been encounterered in biomedical research. This article outlines just some of these reported findings and signposts readers to extremely serious scientific and ethical criticisms that were published almost three decades ago. Confidential internal documents that have become available as a result of litigation against tobacco companies provide additional insights into this work. It is suggested that this research programme has led to one of the worst scientific scandals of all time. A call is made for a long overdue formal inquiry.

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Psychometric Properties of Modified Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck Inventories

Amelang

Schmidt-Rathjens

1992

Psychol Rep

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A sample of 204 subjects of both genders aged 17 to 72 years (one-third students, two-thirds in various occupations) were presented a pool of 291 items. Among these items, those 277 published by Eysenck and Grossarth-Maticek (1990) were of central interest. The scales, produced from the items to measure 6 different constructs, were internally highly consistent and differentiated among groups of various ages and by gender. Two scales are of particular significance, one because the construct underlying the scale is intended to show a disposition for cancer, the other one a disposition for coronary heart disease. Together the scales constitute the one pole of a single bipolar dimension, the other pole of which was defined by a scale measuring health and autonomy. Moreover, groups of persons suffering from either disease differed in their mean scores from those of healthy persons but could not be discriminated from one another by their scores on the scales. The implications of these results for the prediction of either of the two diseases are discussed.

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Prediction of Cancer From Psychological Measures

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Personality and Disease: Correlations of Multiple Trait Scores with Various Illnesses

Personality and Disease: Correlations of Multiple Trait Scores with Various Illnesses

Personality and fatal diseases: Revisiting a scientific scandal

Psychometric Properties of Modified Grossarth-Maticek and Eysenck Inventories

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