Inferiority Research Articles

A COMPREHENSIVE FACTOR ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE ITEMS: A TEST OF TWENTY PUTATIVE FACTOR HYPOTHESES

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate twenty putative factor hypotheses (PFH's) of personality using various rotation methods, both orthogonal and oblique. In order to obtain a representative item pool, the literature was surveyed, with special attention to factor analytic studies. The test sources provided 1726 non-repeated items, from which 400 items, representing 20 PFH's, were selected. A balanced questionnaire consisting of items reworded for general consistency of presentation and answer format was administered to a cross-continent sample from which 1003 complete data sets were obtained. Factoring of 401 variables was carried out by principal axis method followed by four rotation procedures: two orthogonal, two oblique. Results across the various solutions indicated the following factors: Sociability (SY), Adjustment-Emotionality (AE), Dominance (AD), Superego (SG), Hypochondriac-Medical (HM), Impulsiveness (IP), Cooperativeness-Considerateness (CC), Inferiority (IF), Persistence (PS), Trust vs. Suspicion (TS), General Activity (GA). In addition, other factors were found, which although of lesser variance, have been reported in the literature.

The role of religion in the depressed housewife

and discussed more freely elsewhere, but basically they consist of suppressed anger, poor body image, an absence of reinforcing events in life, and an interpersonal anxiety that includes feelings of excessive dependency and inferi ority. It is my purpose in this article to discuss these four factors in depressed housewives and the particular role that religion plays in each. The concept of housewife depression, incidentally, is probably open to some question as to whether it is significantly different from depression among other persons. My opinion is that the concept has enough unique features to warrant separate consideration. It is a less severe depression than those of psychotic proportions (e.g., manic-depressive psychosis, psychotic depression), and is also to be distinguished from depression at other ages (adolescence, old age, etc.) by its relation to the "housewife" features of wifedom, motherhood, and femaleness. Suppressed anger The most outstanding factor in most cases of housewife depression is that of suppressed anger or hostility. Such restrictions of anger expressions (or expres sions of positive affect, also, for that matter) are found in other forms of depression as well, but the source of anger or resentment in the housewife involves primarily those frustrations accompanying her roles. Such role-frustra tions may include occasional feelings of resentment of her children because of the confinement they impose on her and the time and attention they require of her. She may also resent her husband for not helping much with housework or children. She may resent being "merely" a housewife if she is not employed outside the home.

Note on non inferiority with countably or uncountably many performance indices

Note on non inferiority with countably or uncountably many performance indices

Basic studies of the skin transplant for tympanoplasty.

Histological and in vivo examinations of skins were made in order to offer one of the grounds of tympanic skin grafting in the following 14 regions: the external auditory canal (cartilagineous portion), the retroauricular region, the upper arm (medial and lateral parts), the forearm (anterior and posterior parts), the thorax, the back, the abdomen (lateral and hypogastric parts), the inguinal region, the gluteal region, and the thigh (medial and lateral parts). Although considerably different in relation to individuals, both the data show some common characteristic trends of skin in different regious of the body surface irrespective of age. The present data were summarized as follows: L Thick skin pieces can be usually r emoved from the g luteal region and the abdomen. 2. The dis­ tribution of sebaceous glands is relativ el y scarce in the upper and lower extremities. Accordmgly, irrespective of the methods of transplantation, skin pieces removed from both the extremities are of more advantage in preventing them from infection and crust formation. 3. The distribution of sweat glands in skin pieces is almost uniform in the major reg ions ot the body surface. Skin pieces removed by the split thickness graft method are evenly available for tympanic grafting, and thos e from the back and gluteal r egions are of more advantage in preventing them from infection because of the deepest presence of sweat glands ther e. 4. The distribution and thickness of hairs have a rela tion with the success of tympanic skin grafting. Perforation of skin pieces, to be induced by the thin split thickness graft method, is prevented by using the thick split thickness graft method, due to regeneration from the remaining part of the hair roots in the deeper layer of skin pieces. The possibility of development of cholesteatoma f r om hair roots is, however, prevented by using the same skins in the full thickne ss graft method. 5. The ext ension and dis tribution of elastic fibers, especially of deep hori zontal thic k elastic fiber s , has a relation with th e success of tympa nic s kin grafting ­ skin pieces removed from the r etroauricular r egion, the back and the glut eal region are of advantage, because the distribution and extensi on of deep horizontal thick elastic fibers are found far deeper in those regions than anywhere else. 6. Considering from the abovementioned data, it is probable that skin transplants removed f rom the thigh , the back, the g luteal and r etroauricular reg ions are theoretically more avaiabl e a s tympanopl a stic material, although it is difficult to determin e t heir superiority or inferiori t y in detail a s tympanoplast ic material in the skins of th e whole body surfa ce examined.

William Wilberforce on the Idea of Negro Inferiority

William Wilberforce on the Idea of Negro Inferiority

A Study of the Minnesota Rating Scale for Measuring Inferiority Attitudes

Resume L'echelle d'evaluation Minnesota pour mesurer les attitudes d'inferiorite a ete appliquee a des groupes d'etudiants universitaires de premiere annee, et on a etudie les resultats dans ses rapports avec d'autres donnees personnelles. L'etude montre que l'echelle concerne les attitudes emotionnelles plutot que l'habilete, puisqu'elle ne montre aucun rapport significatif avec l'intelligence ou les notes des classes, mais elle montre d'ailleurs un rapport toujours positif avec la Feuille de Donnees Personnelles Woodworth, l'Introversion-Extroversion, les Inquietudes, et la Sur-Reaction. L'Attitude mesuree par l'echelle se trouvera le plus souvent parmi les classes sociales inferieures dans l'universite, et elle est associee aux interets qui suggerent qu'on se retire des contacts sociaux et des situations concretes.

The Golden Complex. A Defence of Inferiority.

The Golden Complex. A Defence of Inferiority.

Review of William Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers; and The Golden Complex, a Defense of Inferiority

Review of William Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers; and The Golden Complex, a Defense of Inferiority