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Premorbid adjustment in adult male schizophrenics, as related to process vs. reactive, chronic vs. acute, age of onset, and neurologically impaired vs. non‐impaired
Author(s) -
Guy James D.,
Liaboe Gary P.,
Wallace Charles J.
Publication year - 1986
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(198601)42:1<62::aid-jclp2270420109>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - psychology , analysis of variance , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , psychiatry
This study assessed premorbid functioning in 40 male, Caucasian schizophrenics, on the abbreviated Phillips Premorbid Adjustment Scale. Subjects with poorer premorbid adjustment tended to be process rather than reactive ( p < .01), early in age of onset ( p < .01), and neurologically impaired ( p < .01). Neurological impairment as a predisposing factor in early social incompetence was suggested after it was found that the subset of process vs. reactive, age of onset, and neurological impairment accounted for 46% of the variance in Phillips scores.