Cogan R, Ashford D, Chaney B, Embry S, Emory L, Goebel H, Holstrom N, Keithley D, Lawson M, Mcpherson J, Scott B, Tebbets J. Obsessiveness and a thematic apperception test-based measure of aggression.
Psychol Rep 2005;
95:828-30. [PMID:
15666912 DOI:
10.2466/pr0.95.3.828-830]
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Abstract
Freud (1909/1955) hypothesized a conflict between love and hate in obsessive neurosis. To test this relationship, we compared a Thematic Apperception Test-based measure of aggressive fantasies in college men who scored either high or low on the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised. 64 undergraduate men from beginning classes in psychology participated. Their mean age was 19.4 yr. (SD= 1.7). 16 men with high scores had significantly higher scores on a TAT-based measure of aggressive fantasies toward parents, partners, and others than 15 men with low scores, which is consistent with Freud's hypothesis.
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