Offer D, Ostrov E, Howard K I
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1981 Feb;38(2):149-52. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1981.01780270035003.
This article presents empirical evidence, based on the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire, comparing the self-image of normal adolescents, psychiatrically disturbed adolescents, and juvenile delinquents, with adolescent self-image as seen by 62 mental health professionals. The latter group was asked to complete the test the way they believed a normal, mentally healthy adolescent would complete it. Similar data were gathered from graduate students in psychology. In seven of ten scales, the mental health professionals viewed the normal adolescent as significantly more disturbed than the normal adolescent views himself or herself. The professionals saw the normal adolescents as having more problems than were reported either by the psychiatrically disturbed or the delinquent adolescents. These findings are important in terms of psychodynamic theory of adolescence and diagnostic problems encountered in work with adolescents.
本文基于奥弗自我形象问卷，呈现了实证证据，比较了正常青少年、精神障碍青少年和青少年罪犯的自我形象，以及62名心理健康专业人员所看到的青少年自我形象。后一组被要求按照他们认为正常、心理健康的青少年会完成测试的方式来完成测试。从心理学研究生那里收集了类似的数据。在十个量表中的七个量表上，心理健康专业人员认为正常青少年比正常青少年自己认为的更具困扰。专业人员认为正常青少年存在的问题比精神障碍青少年或青少年罪犯报告的问题更多。就青少年心理动力学理论以及与青少年工作中遇到的诊断问题而言，这些发现很重要。
