Original scientific paper

ATTITUDE TOWARDS ONESELF AND OTHERS IN NON-CLINICAL POPULATION, DEPRESSED AND PARANOID EXAMINEES

Danijela Budiša ; Clinic of psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Vesna Gavrilov-Jerković ; The Novi sad University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Serbia
Aleksandra Dickov ; Clinic of psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Sladjana Martinovic Mitrovic ; Clinic of psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Dragana Dragin ; Clinic of psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

Abstract

Background: The theoretical concept of existential/life positions describes person’s basic beliefs about oneself and others. Most
of authors on TA postulated that every person has one of four possible basic life positions: I’m OK, you’re OK; I’m not OK, you’re
OK; I’m OK, you’re not OK and I’m not OK, you’re not OK. The aim of this study was the authentication of Existential positions as
theoretical concepts in Transaction Analysis, and it’s potential to discriminate clinical from non-clinical examinees, and paranoid
from depressive examinees within the clinical population.
Subjects and methods: The research conducted was co-relational. The sample belongs to the convenience sample type, and
comprised 200 examinees, 100 from the non-clinical and 100 from the clinical population of adults.
Results: The results of the research confirm a statistically significant difference between the non-clinical and clinical part of the
sample in the examined theoretical concept. The “I am not OK” existential position is more expressed in the clinical part of the
sample. The differences between the examinees with depressive and paranoid disorders indicate that the examinees with the
depressive disorder are more likely to express the “I am not OK, you are OK” and “I am not OK, you are not OK” Existential
position.
Conclusion: In general, we can infer that the assumptions which the research was aimed at testing received partial validation.
Examinees from the clinical part of the sample have a statistically significantly higher score at the position “I am not OK”.
Examinees with depressive characteristics have a more pronounced “I am not OK, you are not OK” position.

Keywords

Transactional Analysis; existential positions; depressiveness; paranoidity

Hrčak ID:

106324

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/106324

Publication date:

20.12.2012.

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