The Theory of Cognitive Orientation: Widening the Scope of Behavior Prediction

Kreitler, Hans; Kreitler, Shulamith

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-541411-1.50009-0

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“…The CO Questionnaire of Paranoia was constructed following the standard procedure (Kreitler and Kreitler, 1982). In the first stage the major key terms for interviewing were determined.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Beliefs are identified as relevant for a certain behaviour if they represent important aspects of the meaning of that behaviour. The CO theory has generated a systematic procedure for exploring and determining the meanings of a behaviour (Kreitler and Kreitler, 1982). In principle, it consists in requesting the subject to communicate the meaning, first of key constructs relating to the behaviour in question and its context or situation, and then repeatedly of the meanings the individual has used in his or her communications.…”

Section: Predicting and Changing Human Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We do this from two complementary viewpoints. The first focuses on the motivational dynamics of paranoids, examined in the framework of the cognitive orientation (CO) theory (Kreitler and Kreitler, 1982). The second focuses on the personality traits of paranoids, examined in the framework of the psychosemantic personality theory (Kreitler and Kreitler, 1990a).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The paranoid person: cognitive motivations and personality traits

Kreitler

1997

Eur. J. Pers.

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The purpose was to contribute to a better understanding of the personality structure and dynamics of paranoia. In study 1, 29 paranoid patients and three control groups (30 schizophrenics, 27 depressives, and 64 healthy subjects) were administered the Cognitive Orientation (CO) Questionnaire of Paranoia, which included beliefs of four types (goals, norms, about self, and general) referring to 44 themes (e.g. masculinity, strength). Discriminant analyses (based on longer and shorter versions of the questionnaire) showed that the four belief types enabled significant discrimination among the four groups and that there is a CO based on themes and conflicts characteristic for paranoia. In Study 2, 31 paranoids and 31 healthy controls were administered the Meaning Test which yielded prevalidated scores for 124 personality traits. The results showed that paranoids have a clear-cut personality profile, with traits in clinical (e.g. obsessive), interpersonal (e.g. extravert, leadership), emotional, cognitive, and other domains. The findings are integrated and the convergences between the behavioral tendencies and personality traits specified, in an attempt to identify the major features of the paranoid, including potential dangers and therapeutic chances. & 1997 by John

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“…The CO Questionnaire of Paranoia was constructed following the standard procedure (Kreitler and Kreitler, 1982). In the first stage the major key terms for interviewing were determined.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Predicting and Changing Human Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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1997

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“…The CO is a comprehensive cognitive-motivational theory of a variety of outputs (Kreitler, 2004;Kreitler & Kreitler, 1976, 1982. A major version of the theory is the CO model of health, which provides a well-validated and empirically-based approach to the impact of psychological variables on diseaserelevant physiological processes (Kreitler & Kreitler, 1991a, 1991bKreitler, 2003).…”

Section: The Cognitive Orientation Theory: the Co Model Of Healthmentioning

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Psychosocial Risk Factors of Cancer Diseases: How Specific Are They?

Kreitler¹,

Kreitler²,

Barak³

2013

JSS

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The paper presents the psychological correlates of colorectal cancer patients in the framework of the cognitive orientation (CO) theory. According to this cognitive-motivational approach the major factors responsible for disease are a pathogene, background factors and a physiological program implementing the disease processes. Psychological factors form a part of the background factors. They consist of specific cognitive contents forming a motivational disposition, representing four types of beliefs referring to specific contents. The cognitive contents are assessed by a CO questionnaire. Previous studies showed that the CO questionnaire differentiated significantly between colorectal cancer patients and healthy controls in two samples, as well as between both groups and Crohn patients who have potential malignancy. The present study was designed to examine the specificity of the psychological variables characterizing colorectal cancer. The CO questionnaire was administered to male colorectal cancer patients and patients with prostate cancer and male healthy controls, and to female colorectal cancer patients, patients with breast cancer and healthy female controls. In both cases the scores of the CO questionnaire differentiated between the colorectal cancer patients and the two other groups, but there were no differences between the prostate cancer patients or the breast cancer patients and the healthy controls. These findings confirm the hypothesis that the CO variables of colorectal cancer are disease specific and may be considered as psychological risk factors for colorectal cancer.

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“…Still, there is evidence that focusing on the cognitive-motivational dispositions underlying addiction-related behaviors may increase our understanding about the dynamics underlying the personality attributes associated with addiction-related behaviors. The cognitiveorientation (CO) theory [11,12] may provide a theoretical and empirical framework for this purpose, as it has the potential to identify unconscious motivational dispositions that shape specific behavioral intents, which can, in turn, evoke specific behaviors. Indeed, studies assessing CO motivations underlying behavioral manifestations in diverse medical and psychiatric morbidities (e.g., schizophrenia, and eating disorders) [13,14] have found high specificity and sensitivity, namely these motivations show considerable variability in different behaviors, but are replicable in different examinations of the same behavior.…”

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Cognitive orientation in substance use disorders and chronic cigarette smoking

Stein¹,

Ram²,

Sofer³

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Ment Health Addict Res

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We sought to identify cognitive-motivational dispositions for addictiveness in females with different addictions. For this purpose we assessed 20 women with substance use disorders (SUDs), 19 women who were routinely smoking at least 10 cigarettes daily for several years, and 24 control women. Cognitive-motivational dispositions were assessed with the 108-item Cognitive Orientation of Addictive Tendencies Questionnaire (COAT-Q), that converges to 25 content-related motivational themes and four basic belief types. Anxiety, depression, and addictiveness were also assessed. We found that compared with the controls, the SUD patients scored higher on addictiveness, depression, anxiety, all four COAT-Q-beliefs types, and three COAT-Q-theme clusters: dissociation from the self and from contacts with others, rejecting bad parts of the self, and the coexistent wish and fear of being loved. The chronic smokers scored mostly in-between the SUD patients and controls. These findings suggest that specific cognitive motivational dispositions may orient towards addictive behaviours in SUDs and chronic smoking.

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The Theory of Cognitive Orientation: Widening the Scope of Behavior Prediction

Cited by 59 publications

References 18 publications

The paranoid person: cognitive motivations and personality traits

The paranoid person: cognitive motivations and personality traits

Psychosocial Risk Factors of Cancer Diseases: How Specific Are They?

Cognitive orientation in substance use disorders and chronic cigarette smoking

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