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Three major problems were investigated to determine if selected psychological needs of former mental patients' wives were related to (a) perceptions of their husbands' posthospital behavior, (b) ratings of recalled marital happiness both before and since their husbands' first hospitalization, and (c) expectations of their husbands' posthospital performance level. Husbands' behavior ratings were made on the MACC Behavioral Adjustment Scale and the Coping Style Scale. The other major variables were measured by a Marital Happiness Scale and an Expectation-Insistence Scale. A relationship was found between (a) needs nurturance and abasement and perceptions of posthospital behavior, and (b) dominance and expectations of posthospital performance level.
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This study, which was supported in part under the auspices of the Professional Educational Program, State of Pennsylvania, is based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Pennsylvania State University.
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Urban, T.S., Kelz, J.W. Wives' needs as related to perceptions of their husbands' post-mental hospital behavior. Community Ment Health J 8, 120–129 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01457165
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