Neurotic patterns in normal individuals and Tuberculosis patients

Pages: 599-600
L. N. Bunker and Subhash Meena (Department of Psychology, J. N. V. University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan)

The presents study was conducted to assess the level of neurosis in normal individuals versus Tuberculosis (TB) patients and effect of gender on it. For this purpose an incidental sample of 80 subjects, 25 to 60 years of age: 20 normal males; 20 normal females; 20 Tuberculosis male patients and 20 tuberculosis female patients was taken and the Medico-Psychological Questionnaire (MPQ) by Bharath Raj was administered. The data have been analyzed by applying the student’t’ test to determine the significance of mean difference between groups of normal individuals and T.B. patients. On the basis of the finding of this study it may be concluded that on the whole of general neuroticism there is no large differences in normal and T.B. individuals but on some specific factors of neurosis there were significant difference was found.