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Implicative dilemmas and general psychological well-being.

Dorough, S., Grice, J. W., Parker, J.

Keywords:
Implicative dilemmas, psychological well-being, sentence-completion task

Abstract:
This study examined the relationship between psychological well-being and implicative dilemmas (Feixas & Saúl, 2004). Participants completed repertory grids based on a sentence-completion task as well as standardized measures of anxiety, depression, and self-esteem. Zero-order correlations revealed statistically significant relationships between the percentage of dilemmas derived from the repertory grids and the measures of psychological well-being. Hierarchical regression analyses, however, indicated that dilemmas were not generally predictive of psychological well-being after controlling for variability in self-discrepancies. Two archival data sets and two individual cases were also examined, and it was concluded that person-centered studies are needed to effectively address the validity of implicative dilemmas.