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The meta-contrast technique: relationships with personality traits and cognitive abilities in a healthy male study sample.

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Summary, in English

The relationship between defensive strategies as measured by the Meta-Contrast Technique (MCT) and self-reported trait anxiety, trait aggression and defensiveness, as measured by the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP), was investigated in 83 healthy men. Further aims of the study were to describe and document how a healthy and demographically well defined group of subjects responded to the MCT, and to investigate whether age, personality traits and cognitive abilities influenced the reports of picture recognition thresholds in the MCT. The results indicated no agreement between the conceptualization of anxiety as measured by the MCT and anxiety as measured by the KSP inventory. Nor was there any agreement between defensive strategies in the MCT and trait defensiveness as defined with the KSP. However, age, personality traits, and cognitive abilities all contributed to explain the variations in the threshold values of recognition of stimuli pictures, all of which are of central importance in the scoring of MCT protocols.

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Pages

315-324

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volume

43

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Psychology

Status

Published

Project

  • Trait anxiety as a determinant of psychological test results

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9450