METHOD FOR EVALUATING PSYCHICAL HEALTH STATE Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves showing a question list containing 220 statements arranged according to 18 scales and united in 6 separate units each describing one of 6 psychological parameters like aggression, anxiety-fear, external I-separation, internal I-separation, narcissism, sexuality. Each of the 6 psychological variables is evaluated with three different scales to reveal the extent, to which the constructive, destructive and deficiency components are marked. Psychical compensation index is calculated as α= A-B and psychical activity index β=A-C, where α - is the psychical compensation index that correlates with the available adaptation resources and psychopathological manifestation degree; β - is the psychical activity index that shows the relation between the available adaptation potential and person psychical activity level; A - constructive scale expressed as A = ΣQka

+ΣQkc+ΣQ^k+ΣQ^k+ΣQkn+ΣQks, B is the destructive scale B = ΣQda+ΣQdc+ΣQd0+ΣQd0_′+ΣQd0+ΣQdn+ΣQds, C is the deficiency scale C = ΣQda^f+ΣQdc^f+ΣQdf0′+ΣQd0^f+ΣQdn^f+ΣQdc^f, where Q is the result obtained in one of the eighteen I-structural scales. Symbolic indices above each term denote the statement belonging to one of the scales as follows: k for constructive, d for destructive, df for deficient, the lower index denoting the statement belonging to primary scales of a - aggression, c - fear, o - internal I-separation, o - external I-separation, n - narcissism, s - sexuality in I-structural test. EFFECT: high accuracy of evaluation method.