(1) A consecutive series of 95 3 to 4 year old and 43 7 to 11 year old children attending surgical, and medical outpatient clinics was studied, using questionnaires that measured behavioural deviance and had adequate reliability and validity for screening populations of children.
(2) In a sample of families of nonschizophrenic outpatient adolescents, a manual for scoring such deviance on stories told for seven TAT cards was developed.
(3) The personality profiles of all three groups emerged as significantly different from each other on all scales with the exception of social introversion and psychopathic deviance.
(4) These symptoms, while shortlived, are similar in nature to symptoms which other authors have shown to be correlated with later increased rate of neurological deviance.
(5) Factors that favoured traumatization were: poor living conditions, interpersonal problems, limited inner resources, low self-esteem (narcissistic problems) and severe psychic deviancy.
(6) Wherever the aphasics' performance was worse than that of the controls, the deviancy-scores correlated significantly with the Token Test.
(7) Measures of communication deviance and of activity, balance and warmth, derived from two family activities, correlated significantly with 3-yr. follow-up adaptive functioning, measured by IQ.
(8) Second-order constructs of General Deviance confirmed integrity of the syndrome at these life stages, although subtle changes in certain components of the construct emerged.
(9) The first assumes a log linear model for the Poisson data and leads to tests based on the deviance.
(10) The test battery included the following instruments: the Psychopathic Deviancy (Pd) scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI); the MacAndrew Alcoholism scale (MAC), a special scale of the MMPI; the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS); the Millon Alcohol Abuse Scale; and the Millon Drug Abuse Scale.
(11) 8.3% of children seen by these professionals were thought to show signs of psychological deviance.
(12) The rate of psychometric deviance in the HR group (23%) was significantly higher than that in either the PC (7%) or NC (2%) groups, and profile analyses showed that the HR subgroup could be delineated by qualitative distinctions in personality functioning.
(13) The psychopathological risk is the "burning out" of the subject, and the defences developed against it, such as humour (casualness), aloofness (abdication), deviance and drug-dependence.
(14) Audiotape recordings of family interaction samples from 30 nondistressed and 32 multiproblem families were coded for communication deviance (CD).
(15) Mother-only households are shown to be associated with particular patterns of family decision making and adolescent deviance, even when family income and parental education are controlled.
(16) The results suggest a duration of neuronal representation of at least 10 s. The within-block variation of interstimulus interval, the rather low temporal probability of deviants, and their large frequency deviance might explain the present results contradicting earlier findings that suggested a shorter duration of that neuronal representation.
(17) The victims were usually illegitimate preschoolers; the assailants, usually the mothers or their paramours, had backgrounds of assaultiveness and social deviance and killed in impulsive rage.
(18) Closer analyses of the individual response profiles, using various criteria for deviance, indicated that only a small proportion of exhibitionists displayed deviant arousal.
(19) We measured serum lipid concentrations in blood samples taken from fasting subjects and assessed personality characteristics on the Bedford Foulds Personality Deviance Scales in a random sample of 1592 men and women aged 55-74 years, selected from age-sex registers of ten general practices in Edinburgh.
(20) Multiple regression and discriminant function analyses indicate that six variables describing family atmosphere during childhood--mother's selfconfidence, father's deviance, parental aggressiveness, maternal affection, parental conflict, and supervision--have an important impact on subsequent behavior.
Deviant
Definition:
(a.) Deviating.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, not all investigators have ensured that schizophrenic subjects belong to that group which does show deviant speech structures.
(2) Questionnaire responses from upper-status junior and senior high school students show the importance of perceived parental pressure in understanding adolescent self-esteem and deviant behavior.
(3) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(4) It was assumed that a deviant stimulus can elicit a MMN only when the neuronal representation of the previous standard stimulus still exists.
(5) Previous experiments with picture sorting and matching tasks have shown aphasics to give more deviant responses than controls when decisions require the identification of single features of concepts, whereas their responses are close to normal whenever decisions have to be based on the relative overlap of broad associative fields.
(6) Therefore, the girls in the present study might be either more psychiatrically disturbed or have more deviant personalities than the boys, which might explain why our hypothesis about a lower thrombocyte MAO activity in the adolescents with externalizing symptoms (group I) was verified only in the girls.
(7) Several of them appeared to be sexually deviant, although they did not meet DSM-III-R criteria for a diagnosis of paraphilia.
(8) This study was conducted to determine whether deviant-speaking children can understand their own speech productions when these productions are presented to them from an external source (tape recorder).
(9) We conclude that immune privilege is extended to histoincompatible developing retinal transplants placed in the AC of the eye, and that these allografts induce a deviant systemic immune response characterized by impaired expression of delayed hypersensitivity and generation of splenic suppressor cells.
(10) The present study examined the vigilance performance of 16 behaviorally deviant and 16 nodeviant children and suggested that the vigilance paradigm might serve as a basis for a standardized test of continuous attention in children.
(11) For deviant kel values of a one-compartment model, the most accurate recovery of ko occurred with the area function method and nonlinear least-squares regression, followed by the Wagner-Nelson and moment analysis methods.
(12) The deviant stimuli elicited in addition to N100m a second deflection, MMNm, peaking at about 200 msec.
(13) However, the stress associated with maternally toxic doses can be expected to result in associated, often transient, fetal abnormalities that may not be the result of deviant organogenesis.
(14) The testosterone level in deviant males was about five times higher than that of normal displaying males.
(15) Ahmadinejad's unwavering support for Mashaei, who is accused of running a "deviant current", has cost him a great deal of influence over Iranian politics and has put him at adds with Khamenei.
(16) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
(17) application of 1-5HTP represents a practicable strategy for investigating biochemical hypotheses as to serotonin mediated normal and deviant human behaviour, especially in affective disorders.
(18) The aggressive teenagers differed from the non-aggressive subjects firstly in their alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, and secondly with respect to other deviant behaviour, such as stealing, running away from home or violent victimization.
(19) Myths that suggest that the obese are inactive, eat differently, or eat more junk food suggest that obese individuals are socially deviant and justifies the intense discrimination directed against them.
(20) This work identified an important attitude of Nigerians namely that behaviour is controlled from outside including deviant behaviour.