RESUMO
Investigated the usefulness of Arnold's Signs (certain MMPI personality characteristics) in examining marital discord among three clinical groups of married couples (N = 72). Couples who were parents of children brought to a mental health facility, couples who were seeking marital counseling, and couples in the process of divorce. While it was predicted that the divorcing group would reveal the most amount of discord, results revealed that the counseling group was consistently higher on all of the signs that reached significance. Possible explanations and recommendations for the use of Arnold's Signs are made.
Assuntos
MMPI , Casamento , Adulto , Transtornos do Comportamento Infantil/terapia , Conflito Psicológico , Aconselhamento , Divórcio , Terapia Familiar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Testes Psicológicos , PsicometriaRESUMO
Optical absorption in short-lived excited states of atomic neon caused by dye-laser intracavity absorption has been observed. The states were excited by a microwave discharge in neon gas produced by a microwave cavity located inside the optical cavity of the dye laser. All transitions arising from the 2p manifold of states that are usually seen in emission are here seen in absorption. Best theoretical estimates of the number density of each of the 2p states in the discharge is about 10(5)-10(7)/cm(3), and the mean lifetime of the states is about 19 x 10(-9) sec.