The Effect of Psychoticism, Psychopathic Deviation & Suspiciousness in Elicitation of Idiosyncratic Word Association on Word Association Test Performance

The present study investigated the role of psychoticism, psychopathic deviation and suspiciousness in elicitation of idiosyncratic word associations on word association test performance. It was hypothesized that psychoticism, psychopathic deviation and suspiciousness has no significant interactive effect on elicitation of idiosyncratic word associations. To test the hypothesis the response 200 male post graduate students for psychoticism, psychopathic deviation, suspiciousness and word association test performance were subjected to a computrised statistical analysis through SPSS 10.0 versions for group’s statistics of median, mean std. deviation and std. error mean. Analysis of variance was computed. In the light of results obtained it is found that psychopathic deviation, psychoticism and suspiciousness has no interactive effect on idiosyncratic word associations and thus entire set of null hypothesis stands accepted.