Journal article
Cognitive impairment and personality adjustment in Vietnam veterans
Australian Psychologist, Vol.19(2), pp.205-216
2011
Abstract
This study investigated the intellectual functioning and personality characteristics of 81 Australian ex-servicemen, 42 of whom had served in Vietnam. A Cognitive Impairment Model (SCIM) developed by Savage (1978, 1981, 1984) enabled intellectual functioning levels, intellectual deterioration and learning ability in the verbal and performance modalities to be asses. The Clinical Analysis Questionnaire (CAQ) of Krug (1980) based 00 Cattell's theory and personality measurement techniques provided an assessment of normal personality characteristics and clinical factors. The data suggested that the two groups, Australian ex-servicemen and Australian Vietnam veterans, were relatively homogeneous with regard to cognitive functioning and gave no indication of impairment in their intellectual levels or of their learning ability. Significant personality differences were, however, found between the two groups of ex-servicemen. The Vietnam veterans showed significantly more tension, depression, guilt, resentment, alienation and hypochondriasis than their colleagues who had remained in Australia. They were more withdrawn from others and from reality and had more abnormal thought than the ex-servicemen who had not been to Vietnam. The cognitive data do not support the view that Vietnam veterans suffered from any serious cognitive impairment. The personality data, however, suggest a significant “Psycbological Stress Syndrome” in these Vietnam veterans which required professional psychological treatment.
Details
- Title
- Cognitive impairment and personality adjustment in Vietnam veterans
- Authors/Creators
- J.A.M. Cugley (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityR.D. Savage (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Australian Psychologist, Vol.19(2), pp.205-216
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Identifiers
- 991005540046707891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.24 Psychiatry & Psychology
- 6.24.93 Trauma and PTSD
- Web Of Science research areas
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- ESI research areas
- Psychiatry/Psychology