Original scientific paper
THIRTY YEARS OF USING A SERIES OF PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRES CONSTRUCTED BY COMPUTER
Aleksandar Momirović
orcid.org/0000-0001-5583-8175
; Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Helena Gjurić
; Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Martina Goluban
; Andrija Stampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Background: The series of personality questionnaires constructed using a computer was created on the basis of cybernetic
theories of personality, which presupposes the existence of six conative control systems: a system for the regulation of defense
responses, a system for the regulation of attack responses, a system for controlling physiological functions, a system for coordination
of regulatory functions, system for integration of regulatory functions and system for regulation of activity. Six personality questionnaires
measure the intensity of the following pathological personality tendencies: 1. neurasthenia and anxiety, 2. aggressiveness
and impulsiveness, 3. conversive neurotic disorders, 4. psychotic dissociation, 5. psychotic regression and 6. extroversionintroversion.
Subjects and methods: The sample consisted of 4368 persons: 3496 subjects without a diagnosis, and 872 patients with a
psychiatric diagnosis. Participants had to fill in the six personality questionnaire. Data were collected anonymously, during psychological
treatment at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital "Dr. Ivan Barbot" in Popovača, at the Department of Occupational Medicine and
Transport and the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Prevention at Dr. Andrija Štampar Institute of Public Health and for
the purpose of selection of candidates for employment in the period from 1984 until today. Basic metric characteristics were
determined for all scales. Factor structure of the scales was determined using principal component analysis; as canonical
discriminant analysis, polar taxons analysis and canonical correlation analysis are special cases of factor analysis, results of factor
analysis were used for further processing.
Results: Results from earlier studies are replicated on much larger sample: metric characteristics of scales are very good, as in
previous studies, similar structure of polar taxons was found and discrimination between healthy subjects ad those with psychiatric
diagnoses was successful. Canonical correlation analysis showed interconnection of reactions on certain scales and extremely
complex relationship between them which indirectly confirms the theoretical model on the basis of which the scales are formed.
Conclusions: The usefulness of this scales is confirmed in clinical setting and in selection of candidates for employment.
Keywords
cybernetic personality theory; personality questionnaires; multivariate analysis
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Publication date:
23.12.2014.
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