Psychiatry related information on Semantic Differential

• Both a semantic differential measuring body image and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) demonstrated limited evidence of clinical sensitivity by differentiating the three outcome groups [1].
• Each subject was administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Semantic Differential Potency Scale [2].
• Q-sort, Semantic Differential, and other data suggest that low-level users take cocaine to overcome personal insecurities and relieve boredom [3].

High impact information on Semantic Differential

• Stress was assessed with the Nursing Stress Scale, attitudes with a Semantic Differential Questionnaire, CS used during one simulated and one actual patient interview with the Cancer Research Campaign Workshop Evaluation Manual, and satisfaction with the nurses' CS with a questionnaire completed by the patients and the nurses [4].
• By employing the Osgood semantic differential and the behavioral differential of Triandis, we assessed the attitude of the normal literate general public toward persons with epilepsy and "cured" psychotic patients and how closely the public would associate or socialize with these people [5].
• Students were given a semantic differential instrument and were asked to rate four concepts related to human sexuality: (a) my sexuality, (b) masturbation, (c) homosexuality, and (d) my role in understanding sexual problems [6].
• The first, acquisition phase was a standard semantic differential conditioning arrangement with a 96-db white noise as US, and a "long" CS-US interval of 8 s, with ten trials each of CS+ (paired with US) and CS- (unpaired) trials [7].
• This study examined a group of pedophiles in an English Special Hospital to determine possible characteristics that make children attractive and adults unattractive to them, using Repertory Grid technique and Semantic Differential [8].

Chemical compound and disease context of Semantic Differential

• Significant changes in the semantic differential ratings were obtained in four of the five CS (conditioned stimuli) phrases for subjects receiving semantic counterconditioning [9].
• Lesser changes in the semantic differential ratings for the same phrases were obtained from subjects in the Pseudo Conditioning and Repetition Control groups [9].
• A factor analyzed semantic differential form useful to the clinical or community psychologist [10].
• Significant PI Release effects, which did not interact with age, were obtained for taxonomic category and semantic differential dimensions [11].
• This study used a nine-scale semantic differential (S-D) instrument in assessing the attitudes of staff and clients in a methadone clinic toward the concepts HEROIN, METHADONE, DRUG COUNSELING, and DRUG-FREE [12].

Gene context of Semantic Differential

• In this paper the students experience of the Management of Care Delivery (MCD) unit of the course is evaluated by use of a semantic differential scale, the Hoste Grid [13].
• Observers made semantic differential ratings of two teen-aged peers, one of whom had normal hearing and one of whom had a moderately severe sensorineural hearing loss [14].
• They completed the following: Semantic Differential Measure of Body Image, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Perceived Social Inventory--Friends, and Perceived Social Inventory--Family [15].
• Research instruments included the Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale, the Semantic Differential (scales for Myself and My Ethnic Group) and the McGuire White Measure of Social Status [16].

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