[Mental health--personality--existentialism. An empirical contribution from the existential analytic viewpoint]

Z Klin Psychol Psychiatr Psychother. 1996;44(2):200-12.
[Article in German]

Abstract

For the purposes of a survey of the correlation between psychic health-personhood-existentiality 211 predominantly higher qualified and in elevated professional positions working adults at the age of 18 to 70 years (43,6% male, 56,4% female) were examined with the Trierer-Persönlichkeitsfragebogen (TPF-Becker, 1989) and the Existenz-Skala (Längle & Orgler, 1991). The results show, that existentiality was found to be a correlative for psychic health to a medium extent in several subscales of the TPF; personhood correlates with psychic health only in the dimension self-transcendence, but not in the dimension self-distance.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Austria
  • Existentialism*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mental Health*
  • Middle Aged
  • Personality Inventory / statistics & numerical data
  • Personality*
  • Psychoanalytic Theory*
  • Psychometrics
  • Reference Values
  • Reproducibility of Results