A stressful film was shown twice to 39 psychiatric patients divided into 3 groups on the basis of their R-S scores. Skin conductance was monitored during the films and an adjective check list completed after each film. Differences among groups fell just short of statistical significance on both stress measures. The effects of the repression-sensitization personality dimension do not seem to account for as large a part of the variability in psychiatric patients' ability to cope with stress as they do in studies using normal Ss.
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