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CBA-2.0 Scale Primarie: Manuale. Una batteria a largo spettro per l’assessment psicologico
No full textA computerized approach to cognitive behavioural assessment: An introduction to CBA-2.0 primary scales.
No full textThe Cognitive Behavioural Assessment-2.0 (CBA-2.0) Primary Scales is an automated assessment package investigating the cognitive-verbal response system. It consists of: (1) self-reports and questionnaires aimed at identifying and specifying patients' problems; (2) a group of programs and logical rules, implemented on personal computers, providing an editor with items, questionnaire scoring and an analysis of responses; (3) an intelligent program which analyzes the responses emerging from the questionnaires and forms hypotheses for the selection of Secondary Scales and for further assessment. The package is part of a research project aimed at reducing part of the decision-making process to an operational language and simulating behavioral therapists decisions in cases of clinical assessmen
Un modello di valutazione psicologica in Medicina Riabilitativa. Uso della Batteria CBA-2.0 Scale Primarie
No full textNeuroticism and Type A behavior pattern in healthy Italian blue-collar workers
No full textBACKGROUND: Even if type A behavior pattern is not a typical pattern of specific social class, in Italy no research study has been conducted on blue-collar workers. In the present study we sought to identify differences in the psychological profiles of type A and non-type A Italian blue-collar subjects.
METHODS: Seventy-three healthy male blue-collar workers, aged 35-59 years, completed the CBA-2.0 Primary Scales (a battery of standardized questionnaires) and the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS). Following the Structured Interview each subject was classified as type A1, A2, X, or B. In the present study, type X and B subjects were considered within the group referred to as type 'non-A'.
RESULTS: The analysis of variance showed that the A1 subjects had higher neuroticism scores than the A2 and non-A subjects but revealed no differences in extraversion, anxiety, depression, obsession-compulsion scores. In the JAS only the 'speed and impatience' scale differentiated the three groups: the highest scores being obtained by the A1 subjects. Among the JAS scales, only correlations (Pearson) between speed and impatience, trait anxiety and neuroticism were found.
CONCLUSION: In our Italian blue-collar sample, type A1 seems to define a subject with high neuroticism score. Finally, our results do not recommend the use of the JAS in Italy for measuring the type A behavior pattern
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