Hand Surgery, located in a rural farming and timber area in north-

central Florida. Because of the surgeon's reputation, patients are

referred from all over the southeast for treatment of hand injuries.

Indeed, several arrived by helicopter during the 2 months that I was

gathering data.

 The type distribution for this group was very uneven and did not

contain any intuitives. The sample contained 50% dominant feeling

types, 41% dominant sensing types, and 8% dominant thinking types. None

of the predicted associations of type and pain response with this group

were significant.

 The coping style scales, however, did yield some interesting

findings that are consistent with previous research reported by

Benedetti, Bonica, and Bellucci (1984). They state that for major hand

or foot surgery, 65% to 70% of patients report severe pain for 3 days.

In this study, hand surgery patients with inhibited style and forceful

coping style reported significantly more pain when tested. As suggested

above, the inhibited coping style may be similar to Jung's introversion.

Million describes these subjects as people who may keep their problems to

themselves and they may have been reluctant to ask for analgesics. The

forceful coping style is described as more verbal and probably not shy

about seeking pain relief. Consequently, in this small group of hand

surgery patients, we had a dichotomy on the present pain intensity

scale. That is, the two styles with significantly higher scorers seem

to be directly opposite styles. This suggests that some other variable

that was not measured is responsible for most of the variance.