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Contributions of individual syndromes to global psychopathology ratings for mental health and substance abuse patients
Author(s) -
Steer Robert A.,
Hassett Therese
Publication year - 1982
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(198204)38:2<448::aid-jclp2270380242>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - psychopathology , psychoticism , psychology , psychiatry , substance abuse , mental health , clinical psychology , anxiety , extraversion and introversion , personality , big five personality traits , social psychology
Used the SCL‐90 Analogue to rate nine psychiatric syndromes‐and overall psychopathology in 1,046 mental health and 809 substance abuse patients admitted to a large metropolitan, community mental health center. Stepwise multiple regressions of the nine syndrome ratings on the global psychopathology ratings for each sample indicated that different syndromes contributed meaningful amounts of variance to the explanations of the global psychopathology ratings. The salient syndromes for the mental health patients were Interpersonal Sensitivity and Psychoticism, whereas those for the substance abuse patients were Anxiety and Paranoid Ideation. Implications of the results for the wisdom of averaging syndrome ratings to calculate overall psychopathology were discussed.