Patrick E. Cook

The community adaptation schedule and the California Psychological Inventory: A validational study with college students

To study the construct validity of the Community Adaptation Schedule (CAS), the CAS and the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) were administered to a group of 57 university students. The scores on the two instruments were correlated and a factor analysis was performed. The results of the study give further evidence for the construct validity of the CAS and indicate that the communityadapted person is personally well adjusted as measured by the CPI.

Some ideological considerations underlying a mental health consultation program to the public schools.

Data describing a year-long mental health consultation program to the public schools were obtained from the School Consultation Field Report. This form was completed after each visit to the schools by the 11 consultants who participated in the program. The results indicate a strong bias toward helping school personnel deal more effectively with “problem children.” The limitations of the case-clinical approach in terms of potential impact are discussed and the biases underlying this orientation are presented within a broader analysis of ones ideology regarding the nature of social problems and how they may be remedied.

Holtzman Inkblot anxiety and shading scores related to state and trait anxiety.

Summary The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the group Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) were administered to 52 college Ss in order to determine the relationship between HIT Anxiety (Ax) and Shading (Sh) scores and A-Trait and A-State scores. Neither Ax or Sh correlated with A-Trait. Ax correlated with A-State, both before and during the administration of the inkblots. To determine the influence of productivity or inhibition, inkblot protocol word counts were obtained. Word count failed to correlate with the sc ores on the STAI, but did correlate significantly with the HIT scores.

Threat of Shock, State Anxiety, and the Holtzman Inkblot Technique

Summary To study the relationship of selected Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) scores and anxiety, Ss were matched on the basis of A-Trait scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). The HIT was administered to Ss under neutral and threat of shock conditions. State anxiety was monitored by means of the A-State scale of the STAI. None of the HIT variables reflected changes in A-State due to the experimental conditions. HIT anxiety correlated significantly with STAI A-Trait. Results are discussed in terms of Trait-State Anxiety theory and previous research.

The Community Adaptation Schedule and the Adjective Check List: A validational study with psychiatric inpatients and outpatients

The Community Adaptation Schedule (CAS) and the Adjective Check List (ACL) were administered to 23 mental health clinic outpatients and 23 state psychiatric hospital inpatients in order to replicate a CAS developmental study and to elaborate further the construct validity of the CAS. Neither the CAS nor the ACL were particularly successful in differentiating the two groups. The CAS did correlate with the ACL in a meaningful pattern. The results are discussed in terms of the validity and usefulness of the CAS.

A correlational study of the community adaptation schedule and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

The Community Adaptation Schedule (CAS) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) were administered to 45 prisoners at a Federal prison and 40 nonprisoners at a vocational-technical school in order to explore the relationships between the CAS scales and 93 clinical and experimental MMPI scales. The CAS scores correlated with MMPI scales in a pattern consistent with the construct of community adaptation as assessed by the CAS. Implications of the study for further development of the CAS were discussed.

Prisoners' and vocational students' adaptation to the community as measured by the community adaptation schedule

The Community Adaptation Schedule (CAS) was administered to 45 young inmates at a federal prison and 40 students at a vocational-technical school to test the hypothesis that prisoners would score in the direction of poorer community adaptation than would nonprisoners. Four indices of the CAS differentiated between the two groups in the expected direction and three discriminated in the direction opposite to expectations. The results are discussed in terms of differences in backgrounds and in the situational variables that had influenced the prisoners and the vocational students.