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Factored scales for the personal health survey with schizophrenics, alcoholics, felons, unmarried mothers, and college students
Author(s) -
Pishkin Vladimir,
Thorne Frederick C.
Publication year - 1978
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<269::aid-jclp2270340204>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , population , mental health , psychiatry , scale (ratio) , meaning (existential) , medicine , psychotherapist , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
Employed the Personal Health Survey (PHS) to study patterns of symptomology related to physical and mental health in a population of 730 S s, which consisted of five subgroups: felons, hospitalized alcoholics, unmarried mothers, college students and institutionalized schizophrenics. The factorial data were analyzed in terms of (a) size of item factor loadings; (b) base rates of responding True to each item; and (c) clinical judgments as to the specificity and meaning of the items and factor scale patterns. Five main factors were extracted: Factor I–General health status; Factor II–Sociopathic character disorders; Factor III–Mixed psychiatric symptoms; Factor IV–Anxiety state with psychosomatic symptoms and general nervousness; and Factor V–Schizophrenicity.