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psychoticism|saɪˈkɒtɪsɪz(ə)m|
[f. psychotic a. + -ism.]
The condition or state of being psychotic or of displaying psychotic tendencies; esp. as a factor showing liability to psychosis included in certain types of personality assessment.
1950H. J. Eysenck in Jrnl. Personality XIX. 129 His [sc. Kretschmer's] theory can best be represented in terms of two orthogonal axes, one measuring schizothymia-cyclothymia, the other normality-psychotic abnormality or ‘psychoticism’. 1955Jrnl. Mental Sci. CI. 876 The effect of insulin therapy is not dependent upon the initial degree of psychoticism as used in the present sense. 1957R. B. Cattell Personality & Motivation xvi. 719 At present a psychoticism measure would be considerably contaminated and distorted. 1957, etc. [see neuroticism]. 1960Payne & Hewlett in H. Eysenck Exper. in Personality II. 11 It was demonstrated that only one factor was necessary to account for the differences observed between the three groups. This factor was labelled ‘psychoticism’. 1964[see introversion 1 b]. 1977New Society 7 Apr. 33/3 This book aims to establish psychoticism..alongside neuroticism, extraversion and intelligence... The attribute it measures is a halfway stage to psychosis, as neuroticism is to neurosis. |