Regarding the suggestion -

> Maybe you could use the physical complaints as elements to elicit the
> constructs

One potential problem is that if you use illnesses that are person may not
have or has limited knowledge of, they may have trouble completing the
gird or generate constructs with little personal meaning.

A search of the Wollongong database or Psycinfo might be worthwhile .

Bob




,,,,,,,,,,, I would use dyadic elicitation and ask patients to
> pick any two and say how they are the same or different (emergent pole),
> then say being like ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, as opposed to (implicit pole). You
> could have "me now"; "how I would like to be in ,,,,,,,,,,,, 6 or 12
> months"; "my ideal",,,,,,,,, plus what significant others think of me as
> elements against which to rate the elicited constructs.
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> Best wishes
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> Mike Hymans.C.Psychol., AFBPsyS.
> Chartered Psychologist
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