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Psychopathology and Love

This study considered the relationship between psychopathology and love. Agape love was defined as spontaneous and selfless love. The hypothesis tested was that people demonstrating psychopathology would make fewer positive responses to statements reflecting love than people free of psychopathology.
The MMPI was utilized to measure the presence of psychopathology. The Atkinson A Scale (developed for this study) measured agape responses. Both these instruments were administered to 102 subjects in three groups: hospital patients, seminary students, and psychology students.
Mean agape scores were subjected to a one-way analysis of variance, Significant difference among the group means was detected at the p <.05 level. A Scheffe test showed hospital patients' agape scores significantly lower than scores of seminary and psychology students. The initial hypothesis was confirmed,

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504487
Date08 1900
CreatorsAtkinson, Stephen E.
ContributorsBlack, Charles J., Jr., Stricklin, Annie B., Sininger, Rollin Albert
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 38 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Atkinson, Stephen E., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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