Ho 6: Sensing types and intuitive types will not differ in the

 number of symptoms they reported on the Health History

 Questionnaire. This hypothesis was not rejected.

Ho 7: Introverts and extraverts will not differ on the Health Locus

 of Control Scale. This hypothesis was rejected for the hand

 rehab. group.

Ho 8: Coping styles will not account for differences on the McGill

 Pain Questionnaire. This hypothesis was rejected.



 To test the hypotheses I used a t test as one-way ANOVA for the

individual groups and the SRTT for the total sample. Significant

findings are

 1. Feeling types chose more affective words than thinking types

 (p < .05) in the gastric bypass group.

 2. Gastric bypass subjects with inhibited (p < .05) and the

 sensitive (p < .01) coping styles reported significantly

 higher pain at the time of testing than other groups.

 3. Hand surgical patients with inhibited coping styles chose

 significantly more evaluative words (p < .05) than the other

 groups and also reported significantly more pain when tested

 (p < .01) than the other groups.

 4. Hand surgical patients with forceful coping styles had

 significantly higher scores on the pain rating index sensory

 (p < .05), pain rating index miscellaneous (p < .05), and the

 pain rating index total (p < .05) than other groups. They

 also reported significantly more pain when tested (p < .01).