Abstract
60 hospitalized patients (30 psychiatric and 30 medical) completed three forms of the Maze Test at half-hour intervals, while answering the 16 PF personality questionnaire. Two of the maze forms appeared to be reliable alternate measures of stimulus-seeking behavior. Correlations of these two forms and the 16 PF indicated that (for hospitalized male patients) change-seeking is negatively related to the specific personality traits of “timidity and guilt proneness” and “anxious and high undischarged drive tension” and is positively related to the trait “experimental and critical nature.” These results are interpreted as empirical support at the questionnaire level for theoretical presentations of change-seeking behavior.
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