Predictive effect of injunctions on personality disorders in dysfunctional Catholic priests and religious sisters: a study using Millon's model and Transactional Analysis

The purpose of this study is to investigate the preference of different sets of injunctions - as measured by the Espero Questionnaire - in the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) psychopathology cluster subgroups in a sample of Catholic priests and religious sisters who had voluntari...

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1. VerfasserIn: Crea, Giuseppe (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2014
In: Mental health, religion & culture
Jahr: 2014, Band: 17, Heft: 8, Seiten: 832-846
weitere Schlagwörter:B Priests
B Catholic Church
B psychopathology subgroups
B religious sisters
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Zusammenfassung:The purpose of this study is to investigate the preference of different sets of injunctions - as measured by the Espero Questionnaire - in the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) psychopathology cluster subgroups in a sample of Catholic priests and religious sisters who had voluntarily sought therapy. A hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis was employed to identify high (n = 21), moderate (n = 32), and low (n = 38) MCMI-III psychopathology cluster subgroups. Members of the low psychopathology subgroup demonstrated a significantly lower numerical set of injunctions than high and moderate psychopathology subgroups. The high psychopathology subgroup reported a greater number of negative injunctions than the moderate psychopathology subgroup. The results suggest that priests and religious sisters who present fewer negative injunctions - those belonging to the low psychopathology subgroup - are generally well adjusted and socially skilled. Those who present more negative injunctions - those belonging to the high psychopathology subgroup - are more at risk for pathological tendencies.
ISSN:1469-9737
Enthält:Enthalten in: Mental health, religion & culture
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2014.933407