Psychiatric symptoms and conflict among personal plans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9617151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina Perring (University of Sussex, corresponding author), Keith Oatley (0000-0002-2088-9770, University of Sussex), Jonathan Smith (0000-0002-6415-8179, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-177 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Medical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1129 • E-ISSN: 2056-5194 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1988.tb02776.x |
| PMID | 3401425 |
| OpenAlex | W2099902321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In everyday life, the existence of personal goals is indicated by the activities in which people are engaged, such as leisure interests, occupation and relationships. Incompatibility between goals was predicted to be one source of conflict associated with poor mental health symptoms. A series of studies using different methods (interviews and questionnaires) to measure the degree of perceived conflict in the daily activities of young and mature students and non‐student adults is reported. Two forms of conflict are described — explicit (between two or more activities) and implicit (the importance of the activity to the individual). The results show that younger and mature students (particularly women) show correlations between their conflict and symptom scores, unlike other survey groups. The transitional nature of the student role may create a situation where the conflict experienced by many in their everyday activities is aggravated, and which is more readily expressed by psychiatric symptoms than in other ways
Activities of daily living · Developmental psychology · Everyday life · Leisure time · Mental health · Physical activity · Psychiatry · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Clinical Psychology · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Medicine · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2017 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |