Sensation seeking and psychopathology |
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| Authors: | Marvin Zuckerman Michael Neeb |
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| Institution: | Marvin Zuckerman, Ph.D., is Professor, Department of Psychology, Michael Neeb is a graduate student, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA. |
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| Abstract: | A sample of 2,115 persons responded to an article in a popular magazine by taking the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and supplying personal information by mail, including data about past treatment, hospitalization, and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. Subjects falling into certain diagnostic categories were closely matched with controls from the same sample who reported no history, treatment, or diagnosis of disorder. SSS scores were not related to general psychopathology, unipolar depression, schizophrenia, or neurosis, but were found to be elevated in persons reporting a history of manic-depressive or sociopathic spectrum (including alcoholism and drug abuse) disorder. |
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| Keywords: | Sensation seeking mania depression schizophrenia neurosis sociopathy |
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