Jerald F Dirks
Biographic Data
| ID | 5546869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerald F Dirks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerald F |
| FAMILY NAME | Dirks |
| SIGNATURE | DIRKS J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jewish Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Survey of Christian Religious Education in the United States
Prior to the landmark Supreme Court decision of June 1963, which banned public prayer from the public schools, Christian religious education was often a routine part of the overt instruction provided by the American public school system. However, in the wake of that legal milestone, even though instruction in the Judeo-Christian interpretation of religious history continued to be taught covertly, American churches began relying more heavily on pr…
Anxiety Reduction in Asthma: Four Catches to General Application1
Anxiety reduction procedures as adjuncts to medical treatment have almost invariably been reported to benefit asthmatic patients in individual case studies. However, the results of more systematically controlled studied are clearly inconsistent. This discrepancy is understandable in view of what is now known about anxiety in asthma. Four catches, each based on what has been reported about the roles and forms of anxiety in asthma, are presented. E…
Anxiety in Asthma: Panic-Fear Symptomatology and Personality in Relation to Manifest Anxiety
Anxiety in asthma has been measured in two ways. The MMPI Panic-Fear scale is a measure of general, nonillness specific anxiety and the Panic-Fear symptom scale of the Asthma Symptom Checklist is a measure of illness-specific anxiety focused on the asthma attack. Both measures relate to response styles in asthma which contribute to the maintenance of illness. In the present study of 140 asthmatic patients, MMPI Panic-Fear scores were highly relat…
Psycho‐maintenance in asthma: Hospitalization rates and financial impact
Certain patient styles perpetuate chronic physical illness, defeat medical treatment, and increase the utilization of medical services. Two such extreme styles among asthmatic patients are indexed by the MMPI panic‐fear scale, reflecting either (a) helpless dependency and anxiety, or (b) excessive inappropriate independence. The present findings indicate that both of these patient styles are related to excessively high hospitalization rates durin…
Medical Outcome in Asthmatic Patients: Effects of Airways Hyperreactivity and Symptom-Focused Anxiety
Panic‐fear research in asthma and the nuclear conflict theory of asthma: Similarities, differences and clinical implications
Recent research with the MMPI panic-fear scale has identified personality traits implicated in the psychological maintenance of the medical intractability of asthma. Intensity of prescribed medication, length of hospitalization, and rates of rehospitalization have been found to relate to MMPI panic-fear scores independent of the objective medical severity of the illness as indexed by longitudinal pulmonary functions. In the present study, MMPI pa…
Psychological Contributions to Chronicity in Asthma: Patient Response Styles Influencing Medical Treatment and Its Outcome
Research is reviewed relating to two aspects of response styles among asthmatic patients, neither of which is a mere derivative of the patient's medical condition. One aspect, indexed by panic-fear symptomatology, appears to be associated with the level of attention directed at breathing difficulties, ranging from symptom disregard (low panic-fear symptomatology) to symptom vigilance (high panic-fear symptomatology). A second aspect, indexed by a…
Panic-Fear in Asthma: Rehospitalization Following Intensive Long-Term Treatment
The panic-fear personality scale related to rehospitalization rates of asthmatics during two successive 6-month periods following intensive long-term treatment. High and Low Panic-Fear patients were nearly twice as likely as Moderates to be rehospitalized. Neither longitudinal pulmonary function measurements, physicians' judgments about the medical severity of the asthma during treatment, nor the presence or absence of maintenance oral corticoste…
New developments in panic‐fear research in asthma: Validity and stability of the MMPI panic‐fear scale
An earlier study (Dirks et al. 1977) described the development of a 15‐item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) panic‐fear scale relating to the reported frequency of panic‐fear symptoms on the Asthma Symptom Checklist (ASC). High MMPI panic‐fear scale scores describe fearful, highly emotional individuals who profess to have their feelings hurt more easily than others, to feel helpless and to give up easily in the face of difficult…
Panic-Fear: A Personality Dimension Related to Intractability in Asthma
A 15-item MMPI scale has been developed that relates to the reported frequency of panic-fear symptoms on the Asthma Symptom Checklist (ASC). High scale scores describe fearful, emotionally labile individuals who profess to be more sensitive than others and unable or disinclined to persist in the face of difficulty. The relationship between the MMPI panic-fear scale and the ASC panic-fear symptoms is highly replicable and related to a crucial aspe…
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Panic-Fear: A Personality Dimension Related to Intractability in Asthma
A 15-item MMPI scale has been developed that relates to the reported frequency of panic-fear symptoms on the Asthma Symptom Checklist (ASC). High scale scores describe fearful, emotionally labile individuals who profess to be more sensitive than others and unable or disinclined to persist in the face of difficulty. The relationship between the MMPI panic-fear scale and the ASC panic-fear symptoms is highly replicable and related to a crucial aspe…
Panic-Fear in Asthma: Rehospitalization Following Intensive Long-Term Treatment
The panic-fear personality scale related to rehospitalization rates of asthmatics during two successive 6-month periods following intensive long-term treatment. High and Low Panic-Fear patients were nearly twice as likely as Moderates to be rehospitalized. Neither longitudinal pulmonary function measurements, physicians' judgments about the medical severity of the asthma during treatment, nor the presence or absence of maintenance oral corticoste…
New developments in panic‐fear research in asthma: Validity and stability of the MMPI panic‐fear scale
An earlier study (Dirks et al. 1977) described the development of a 15‐item Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) panic‐fear scale relating to the reported frequency of panic‐fear symptoms on the Asthma Symptom Checklist (ASC). High MMPI panic‐fear scale scores describe fearful, highly emotional individuals who profess to have their feelings hurt more easily than others, to feel helpless and to give up easily in the face of difficult…
Medical Outcome in Asthmatic Patients: Effects of Airways Hyperreactivity and Symptom-Focused Anxiety
Panic‐fear research in asthma and the nuclear conflict theory of asthma: Similarities, differences and clinical implications
Recent research with the MMPI panic-fear scale has identified personality traits implicated in the psychological maintenance of the medical intractability of asthma. Intensity of prescribed medication, length of hospitalization, and rates of rehospitalization have been found to relate to MMPI panic-fear scores independent of the objective medical severity of the illness as indexed by longitudinal pulmonary functions. In the present study, MMPI pa…
Psychological Contributions to Chronicity in Asthma: Patient Response Styles Influencing Medical Treatment and Its Outcome
Research is reviewed relating to two aspects of response styles among asthmatic patients, neither of which is a mere derivative of the patient's medical condition. One aspect, indexed by panic-fear symptomatology, appears to be associated with the level of attention directed at breathing difficulties, ranging from symptom disregard (low panic-fear symptomatology) to symptom vigilance (high panic-fear symptomatology). A second aspect, indexed by a…
Anxiety Reduction in Asthma: Four Catches to General Application1
Anxiety reduction procedures as adjuncts to medical treatment have almost invariably been reported to benefit asthmatic patients in individual case studies. However, the results of more systematically controlled studied are clearly inconsistent. This discrepancy is understandable in view of what is now known about anxiety in asthma. Four catches, each based on what has been reported about the roles and forms of anxiety in asthma, are presented. E…
Anxiety in Asthma: Panic-Fear Symptomatology and Personality in Relation to Manifest Anxiety
Anxiety in asthma has been measured in two ways. The MMPI Panic-Fear scale is a measure of general, nonillness specific anxiety and the Panic-Fear symptom scale of the Asthma Symptom Checklist is a measure of illness-specific anxiety focused on the asthma attack. Both measures relate to response styles in asthma which contribute to the maintenance of illness. In the present study of 140 asthmatic patients, MMPI Panic-Fear scores were highly relat…
Psycho‐maintenance in asthma: Hospitalization rates and financial impact
Certain patient styles perpetuate chronic physical illness, defeat medical treatment, and increase the utilization of medical services. Two such extreme styles among asthmatic patients are indexed by the MMPI panic‐fear scale, reflecting either (a) helpless dependency and anxiety, or (b) excessive inappropriate independence. The present findings indicate that both of these patient styles are related to excessively high hospitalization rates durin…
A Survey of Christian Religious Education in the United States
Prior to the landmark Supreme Court decision of June 1963, which banned public prayer from the public schools, Christian religious education was often a routine part of the overt instruction provided by the American public school system. However, in the wake of that legal milestone, even though instruction in the Judeo-Christian interpretation of religious history continued to be taught covertly, American churches began relying more heavily on pr…
Anxiety (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Asthma (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (6 works) · Asthma and respiratory diseases (6 works) · Panic (6 works) · Personality (6 works)