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Differentiating Schizophrenics through parental conflict
Author(s) -
Hoover Carol F.
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(197810)34:4<844::aid-jclp2270340405>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - psychology , discriminant function analysis , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , offspring , developmental psychology , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , pregnancy , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology , genetics
Compared 154 parents of Schizophrenic, Maladjusted, and Community young people (S, M, C) through the Conflict in Marriage Scale (CIMS), an agree‐disagree card sort. Both men and women could be differentiated accurately according to the diagnostic group of their offspring (discriminant function analysis). On CIMS items that showed at least a 20% difference between any two diagnostic groups in proportion of affirmative response, S fathers were intermediate between M and C fathers significantly more often than in a high or low (extreme) position.