Harris Lingoes Subscales

Question 1

Depression

Answer 1

D1: Subjective Depression
■ Obvious distress
■ Feel blue, feel down
■ captures general misery of depression.

D2: Psychomotor Retardation
■ Lack of energy and sense of inertia
■ Low D2 may be suicidal potential

D3: Physical Malfunctioning
■ Weakness, loss of appetite, weight changes, constipation

D4: Mental dullness
■ Poor memory, difficulty concentrating, judgment
■ mental fog of depression

D5: Brooding
■ Rumination
■ Unworthwhile, useless, hopeless

Question 2

Hysteria

Answer 2

Hy1: Denial of Social Anxiety

Hy2: Need for affection and reinforcement from others

Hy3: Lassitude Malaise
■ Can’t enjoy life despite things being great
■ General Weariness

Hy4) Somatic complaints

Hy5) Inhibition of aggression

Question 3

Psychopathic Deviate

Answer 3

Pd1: Family Discord
○ most of variance!!

Pd2: Authority Conflict

Pd3: Social Imperturbability
○ Not worried or dependent socially. Don’t care if people like them.

Pd4a: Social Alienation
○ primary psychopath: doesn’t give a damn about other people and society–they are just a means to an end. Don’t care about offending people at all. No anxiety, comfortable. Lack of rapport, isolation.

Pd4b: Self-Alienation
○ Secondary psychopath: anxious, but this doesn’t stop them from behaving the way they do. Uncomfortable and alienated from themselves-can’t understand why they are doing these things. Lack of integration, guilt, despondency.

Question 4

Paranoia

Answer 4

Pa1: Ideas of External Influence
○ Feelings of persecution, externalization of blame
○ Projection–nothing is your fault

Pa2: Poignancy
○ Feelings of being special, unique, different
○ Sensitivity, soft-heartedness, thin skinned, vulnerable, high strung, and easily hurt.

Pa3: Moral Virtue
○ smarter than people, more rational, excessively generous, tend to interpret others’ motives as more positively and deny hostility and suspicion, but this is all wrong, you aren’t that nice, you’re hostile.

Question 5

Schizophrenia

Answer 5

Sc1: Social Alienation
○ withdrawal, emotional deprivation: misunderstood, insulted, punished unfairly, plotted against, detached, lonely

Sc2: Emotional Alienation
○ existence devoid of interests, engagement, or aspiration; emotional withdrawal from life

Sc3: Lack of Ego Mastery, Cognitive
○ cog deficits in attn, memory, concentration.
○ similar to D4 (mental dullness) but emphasizes disruption of thought processes by intrusion of troubling thoughts→ disability of thinking.

Sc4: Lack of Ego Mastery, Conative
○ conation-inclination to act purposively, which is what they lack
○ lost motivation to behave in constructive and productive fashion

Sc5: Lack of Ego Mastery, Defective Inhibition
○ fear or dread of internal disintegration or loss of control
○ restless, hyperactive, irritable with periods of laughing/crying they cannot control and episodes during which they didn’t know what they were doing.

Sc6: Sensorimotor Dissociation
○ unexplainable bodily changes (e.g. twitchings, muscle weakness or numbness, voice changes, loss of taste, etc).
○ motor, sensory, and dissociative symptoms.

Question 6

Mania

Answer 6

Ma1: Amorality

Ma2: Psychomotor Excitation/Agitation

Ma3: Imperturbability
○ deny anxiety, not worried.

Ma4: Ego inflation:
○ is above the rules and above others.

Question 7

Protocol

Answer 7

Run HL sub scales on any scale higher than 65

*Even if 66, it could all fall one 1 subscale