Noam G G, Dill D L
McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA.
Psychiatry. 1991 May;54(2):208-17. doi: 10.1080/00332747.1991.11024548.
The purpose of the current study was to explore relationships between symptomatology and ego development in adults. To that end we studied patients presenting for treatment in an outpatient clinic of a major psychiatric hospital. We examined the relationship of ego development to intensity of subjective distress and type of presenting symptoms and hypothesized that with increasing development of ego functioning, subjective distress from all kinds of psychiatric symptoms could be better tolerated and coped with and, therefore, would be experienced as less severe. For the sample as a whole, ego development was significantly related to psychiatric symptoms and symptom severity in patterns predicted from theory. On all but two scales, symptomatology decreased significantly as ego development increased. We argue that the ego development model is useful in further exploring psychopathology during the adult years.
本研究的目的是探讨成年人症状学与自我发展之间的关系。为此，我们对一家大型精神病医院门诊接受治疗的患者进行了研究。我们考察了自我发展与主观痛苦强度以及呈现症状类型之间的关系，并假设随着自我功能的发展，各种精神症状引起的主观痛苦能够得到更好的耐受和应对，因此所体验到的严重程度会更低。对于整个样本而言，自我发展与精神症状及症状严重程度之间的关系符合理论预测模式。除两个量表外，在所有量表上，随着自我发展的增加，症状学显著下降。我们认为自我发展模型有助于进一步探索成年期的精神病理学。
