A Denotative Dimension of Meaning for the Mentally Ill-Healthy Role in Society

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13665251
AutoresFrancis P Noe (Rosary Hill College and State University of New York at Buffalo, autor correspondente)
Ano1970
Volume26
Fascículo2
Páginas519-531
Data de publicação1970-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1970.26.2.519
PMID5486323
OpenAlexW1970634654
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas46

The problem of measuring meaning continues to present conceptual and methodological difficulty in research. In most cases, attitudinal or connotative meanings are elicited from social objects particularly role sets, cultural groups or specialized aggregates. But in some cases, the scaling of a denotative object like a role set would have desirable advantages. For the mentally ill-healthy role set, this could mean avoiding stereotypic responses provided the scales were sufficiently projective. To exploit this possibility, a differential scale representing the ill-healthy roles was tested under various conditions of control. The findings suggest that the ill-healthy items adequately scale and distinguish between the concept criteria. A further theoretical implication was tested, showing that the mentally ill-healthy roles were not significantly different when compared to the evaluational dimension of the semantic differential implying that legitimacy (tendency to sanction) is the central focus of meaning for this dyadic structure

Cognitive psychology · Construct (python library · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Legitimacy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Object (grammar · Projective test · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Scale (ratio · Semantic differential · Set (abstract data type · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity