Childhood disease and emotional maturity in the psychopathic woman

The Willoughby Emotional Maturity Scale, when simplified and used as a test for 65 psychopathic women, gave an odd-even reliability of .69 and a first half-second half reliability of .77, indicating a fairly high degree of consistency of response for psychotic individuals. The inconsistency in the number of diseases reported, the lack of agreement in the particular diseases mentioned, and the tendency for more diseases to be reported in interview than were given in the hospital records, lead the authors to question the reliability of this information. There is no evidence that emotional maturity, or whatever the scale as used measures, is related to age, educational status, or clinical diagnosis. The results of all efforts to relate emotional maturity to disease incidence in psychotic women indicated that there is probably no association between these variables. These results do not corroborate G. M. Stratton's findings, nor can it be said that they disprove them, since it has not been shown that the EM scale measures the same thing as Stratton's rating scale. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

Developmental psychology · Maturity (psychological) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

• Emotion and the incidence of disease

  G M Stratton•Journal of Abnormal & Social…•1926

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