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Syndromes of schizophrenia and language dysfunction
Author(s) -
Shean Glenn D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199902)55:2<233::aid-jclp11>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychomotor learning , association (psychology) , psychosis , clinical psychology , sentence , psychiatry , construct (python library) , developmental psychology , cognition , linguistics , psychotherapist , philosophy , computer science , programming language
This study investigated the relationship between performance on word association and sentence construction tasks and the three‐syndrome model of schizophrenic symptoms. Participants were 70 inpatients with a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia. Each participant was rated on positive and negative symptom scales, and ratings were grouped into three syndromal patterns (Reality Distortion, Psychomotor Poverty, and Disorganization). Among the syndromes, only symptoms of disorganization were significantly related to the ability to construct meaningful sentences using word associations. Results suggest that symptoms of disorganization, length of hospitalization, and premorbid adjustment are dimensions that are related to language disturbance in patients with schizophrenia. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 55: 233–240, 1999.