[Experimental psychological study of the functions of the aspiration level of schizophrenic patients]

The results of experimental psychological examinations of the activating and protective functions of the level of ambitions in three groups of subjects (70 patients with moderately progressive shift-like and paranoid schizophrenia with a pronounced defect, 70 patients suffering from schizophrenia with an unmarked defect and 70 healthy controls) are presented. The study demonstrated that in schizophrenic patients with a marked defect as compared with healthy subjects and schizophrenics without any prominent defect, there is a decrease in the activating and an increase in the protective function of the level of ambitions which is considered as one of the mechanisms and signs of adynamia.