Introduction:
Lots of people feel anxious from time to time. You might get a knot in your stomach before a job interview, stress about money, or fret if your child isn’t home by curfew. It’s a normal part of being human.But what if your extreme worry doesn’t go away? Negative or obsessive thoughts can take over your mind to the point that it’s hard for you to handle everyday situations. That’s called neurotic behavior. It can — but not always — stem from a mental illness.
Neurotic means you’re afflicted by neurosis, a word that has been in use since the 1700s to describe mental, emotional, or physical reactions that are drastic and irrational. At its root, a neurotic behavior is an automatic, unconscious effort to manage deep anxiety.
In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association removed the term neurosis from its diagnostic manual as part of a revamp to standardize the criteria for mental illnesses. Today, neurosis is not a stand-alone mental condition. Instead, doctors most often put its symptoms in the same category as anxiety disorder. In other words, what used to be called neurosis now falls under the umbrella of anxiety.
The line that divides neurotic from normal is the intensity. Neurotic thoughts and behaviors by definition are so extreme that they interfere with your personal, professional, and romantic lives. What’s more, they tend to be your default response to even minor problems.
Test Description:
The instructions for self-administering in nature both for the individual and for the group. Instructions are provided in the booklet and no separate instructions are necessary group administration, to facilitate starting at a time, it is advantageous to read aloud instructions appearing in the inventory by the examiner. No time limit is imposed. People usually take around half-and-hour to complete the inventory. Accuracy of results depends on the trueness of answers and thorough co-operation of the subjects.
Scoring: The weightage given to the responses in eaci determines the score for that item A scoring key has been provided for this purpose. The weight-ages were determined on the basis of judgments given by psychiatrists, psychoanalysis, and psychologists. Each state designed to score for positive or negative responses as it represents symptoms of neurotic tendency For five items (No. 41,51,55,56 and 58) negative response to indicative neurotic tendency and for other items it is positive response eights are shown response – category wise in following table
| Items | Response categories | ||||
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | |
| Scoring weights given to all items except 41, 51, 55, 56 and 58 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Scoring weights given to the items 41, 51, 55, 56 and 58 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Table: Scoring weights given to the different response categories
For three statements (21, 26, and 36) having more than one situations, either maximum weighted score or in case of equal score for all the sub-items any one of the scores is considered for determining the total score of an individual theoretically the minimum maximum possible scores are 66 and 330 respectively
Norms and Interpretation
Norms have been prepared to subdivide the population into four groups as shown in Table below. For this purpose at first all the raw scores were transformed into standard scores mean 50 ‘and, SD 10 and then a method suggested by Heron (1956) was followed to dichotomize the population on the basis of raw score itself.
| Range of raw scores | Classification |
| 181 and below | Normal |
| 182-215 | Slightly Neurotic |
| 216-240 | Moderately Neurotic |
| 241 and above | Highly Neurotic |
Table: Classification of population
Purpose:
To find the neurotic tendency of the subject using KNPI.
Equipment/Material Used
i) KNPI Consumable booklet
ii) Manual for KNPI
iii) Pen/pencil/paper, eraser
Introduction to the subject:
Name: XXX XXX
Age: 31
Religion: Hindu
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Occupation: Customer Relation Manager
Education : Bachelors
Date of the Test: December 29, 2019, 10:00 AM
Place: Hattiban
Test Administration:
Procedure:
Subject was instructed before taking the test as per manual. The subject was informed about the test, its relevance and consumable booklet of KNPI was presented to him. The subject was again explained the procedure to approach the test. If you feel the statement matches your thoughts or behaviors clearly or much closer to it then, you mark it ‘1’ which means Yes or ‘Almost always’. If you feel the statement does not match your thoughts or behaviors completely or is closer to ignorance then, you mark it ‘2’ which means ‘No’ or ‘Almost Never’. Similarly, if you find the statement ‘Usually’ or ‘Frequently’ relevant to you then you mark it ‘3’, if it is ‘Sometimes’ or ‘Rarely’ then mark it ‘4’ and if it is ‘Occasionally’ or ‘An average amount’ mark it ‘5’. You must attend all the statements and mark them to finish the test. The Subject’s consent was requested and assured that the data obtained will remain confidential and was requested to proceed with the test and ask for help if needed.
Testing:
The test was conducted in the office room. After the subject was instructed the test was conducted with all the materials. The subject was confused sometimes while providing the scoring on the answer sheet due to the different numbering for the response.
Introspection:
After the testing was completed the subject was asked to share his experience. He replied, “The questions were easy to understand and quite simple and I have tried to provide the response in an honest manner.”
Release:
The subject was released with thanks and assuring him that he will receive his scoring on our next meeting.
Result and Analysis/Interpretation
Obtained Score:
| SN | Mark | Obtained | SN | Mark | Obtained | SN | Mark | Obtained | SN | Mark | Obtained |
| 1. | 2 | 1 | 20. | 2 | 1 | 35. | 4 | 2 | 50 | 5 | 3 |
| 2. | 2 | 1 | 21A | 2 | 1 | 36A | 2 | 1 | 51 | 3 | 2 |
| 3. | 4 | 2 | 21B | 2 | 1 | 36B | 2 | 1 | 52 | 2 | 1 |
| 4. | 5 | 3 | 22. | 2 | 1 | 36C | 2 | 1 | 53 | 2 | 1 |
| 5. | 4 | 2 | 23. | 4 | 2 | 36D | 2 | 1 | 54 | 2 | 1 |
| 6. | 5 | 3 | 24. | 4 | 2 | 36E | 2 | 1 | 55 | 1 | 1 |
| 7. | 2 | 1 | 25. | 2 | 1 | 37. | 2 | 1 | 56 | 5 | 3 |
| 8. | 2 | 1 | 26A | 4 | 2 | 38. | 2 | 1 | 57 | 2 | 1 |
| 9. | 4 | 2 | 26B | 4 | 2 | 39. | 2 | 1 | 58 | 3 | 4 |
| 10. | 4 | 2 | 26C | 4 | 2 | 40. | 2 | 1 | 59 | 4 | 2 |
| 11. | 4 | 2 | 26D | 2 | 1 | 41. | 3 | 2 | 60 | 2 | 1 |
| 12. | 2 | 1 | 27. | 2 | 1 | 42. | 2 | 1 | 61 | 5 | 3 |
| 13. | 4 | 2 | 28. | 2 | 1 | 43. | 2 | 1 | 62 | 3 | 4 |
| 14. | 2 | 1 | 29. | 4 | 2 | 44. | 4 | 2 | 63 | 2 | 1 |
| 15. | 2 | 1 | 30. | 2 | 1 | 45. | 4 | 2 | 64 | 2 | 1 |
| 16. | 2 | 1 | 31. | 2 | 1 | 46. | 2 | 1 | 65 | 4 | 2 |
| 17. | 2 | 1 | 32. | 2 | 1 | 47. | 4 | 2 | 66 | 4 | 2 |
| 18. | 3 | 4 | 33. | 2 | 1 | 48. | 2 | 1 | TOTAL SCORE | 114 | |
| 19. | 2 | 1 | 34. | 2 | 1 | 49. | 2 | 1 | |||
Table: Obtained Score KNPI
The subject has scored a total of 114 points in response to 66 questions. The score range lies below 181 so the subject falls under the Normal category.
Note: The interpretation of the score is as per the KNPI manual
Impression:
The subjects score a total of 114 and falls on normal range so we can say the subject shows no sign of neuroticism.
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