Sending your teenagers away. Controlled stress decreases neurotic vulnerability
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- DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1993.01820190087009
Sending your teenagers away. Controlled stress decreases neurotic vulnerability
Abstract
Objective: To study the effect of a controlled stressor on the rate of personality maturity.
Design: Eighteen-month prospective controlled study.
Setting: General community.
Experimental: Exposed to the stress of 12 months' intercultural experience.
Control: Remained in usual environment.
Main outcome measure: A measure of personality vulnerability/maturity derived from a canonical correlational combination of trait anxiety, locus of control, and defense style.
Results: Exchange students exposed to the stressor made significantly greater gains in personality maturity (0.28 vs 0.03 SD: P < or = .01) than did the control students matched on this measure at baseline.
Conclusion: Exchange students exposed to the stress of living abroad showed a substantial decrease in vulnerability, which should decrease the risk of future neurotic disorders in this group.
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