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Complexity preference in substance abusers and controls: relationships to diagnosis and personality variables
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, School of Medicine, CA 94305.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
To assess the relationship between complexity preference as measured by the Barron-Welsh Revised Art Scale and models of arousal and personality, 36 male substance abusers and 24 community controls were given this tool as well as a battery of personality tests. Some support was found for the notion that emotionality, as measured by the Test of Emotional Styles, was associated with preference for complexity. Relevant neurobiological models of affective expression and hemispheric asymmetry are discussed in light of these findings.