PATIENTS GOALS AND MANIFESTATION OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Tested 3 groups of hospitalized psychiatric patients under research, transfer, and discharge instructional sets. Differences in self-reported deviance among the groups are interpreted within an impression management framework for the information they reveal about Ss' motivational orientations toward transfer and discharge as hospitalization outcomes. Ss were of greatest accord in wanting to avoid transfer. Orientation toward discharge varied among S subgroups. Shifts in the level of presented deviance were similar for all dimensions but occured significantly only for psychopathology. Differential levels of presented deviance among subgroups are interpreted in terms of corresponding differences in judged appropriateness for patienthood. (15 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.