Journal article

Publication year: 1997

Pages: 52-57

Journal: Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie

Volume number: 47

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0937-2032

Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag

Abstract: 
This study was intended to test the assumption whether the ideal-image measure within the Giessen-Test reflects the specific personality as hypothetisized by psychoanalytic theory or a general norm-orientation. To test this assumptions the items of the Giessen-Test were transformed an submitted to random samples of in- and out-patients. The results clearly indicate that the ideal-image as measured by the Giessen-Test is a general norm-orientation and consists of the dimensions ''social-acknowledgement'' and ''capability of binding''. Within the second dimension there seems to be a gender difference. Additional analysis of variance and Cronbachs alpha indicate that differences between in- and out-patients are the result of a possible ''curative effect''.

Harvard Citation style: Beckmann, D., vonGeorgi, R. and Mestel, R. (1997) The ideal-image and role of gender norms in the Giessen-Test, Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 47(2), pp. 52-57

APA Citation style: Beckmann, D., vonGeorgi, R., & Mestel, R. (1997). The ideal-image and role of gender norms in the Giessen-Test. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie. 47(2), 52-57.