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 interviewed. Several people were willing to participate but were unable

 to read. All others were screened informally for functional illiteracy,

 but since a reading test was not used, there may have been some with

 this disability included.

 Taken in the context of the background of the hand rehabilitation

group, none of the findings are surprising. The sensitive coping styles

(the complainers) chose more sensory words, and the respectful styles

complained of more pain. The only surprise here was the paucity of

findings, for if these people were truly similar to chronic pain

patients, they should have had more complaints. Or perhaps the findings

represent a response to demand characteristics of the interview.

Subjects were told that this was a pain study, and they could well have

decided not to disappoint me by not reporting any pain.


 Conclusions


 Although the intent of the study was the examination of personality

type as described by Jung and pain response, the three groups differed

on type of surgery, time of surgery, and 4 out of the 11 scales of the

dependent variable so the decision was made to look at only the main

preferences El, SN, TF and JP. When type preferences were analyzed

separately, there were very few significant differences in their reports

of pain response, and the few significant differences were not

consistent for all three patient groups.

 The findings on coping styles and pain response were also not

consistent for all three groups. There is some possibility that the

hand rehabilitation group was actually a chronic pain sample, but even