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Life events and psychopathology severity: Comparisons between psychiatric outpatients and inpatients
Author(s) -
Harder David W.,
Strauss John S.,
Greenwald Deborah F.,
Kokes Ronald F.,
Ritzler Barry A.,
Gift Thomas E.
Publication year - 1989
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(198903)45:2<202::aid-jclp2270450205>3.0.co;2-b
Subject(s) - psychopathology , moderation , bivariate analysis , psychology , stepwise regression , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
Relationships between life events stress variables and seven indices of psychopathology severity for a group of 97 never‐hospitalized outpatients were compared with those of a previously studied group of 217 first‐admission functional disorder psychiatric inpatients from the same geographical catchment areas. The hypotheses tested were that degree of life events stress would be correlated positively with indices of psychopatholoigcal severity and that the magnitudes of association would be higher for the outpatients. Bivariate correlations and stepwise multiple regression with other potential demographic and prognostic moderator variables provided evidence for significant, but somewhat differing, patterns in outpatient vs. inpatient stress/pathology relationships. Contrary to prediction, the magnitudes of significant and near‐significant associations between life events and pathology severity were not different in the two samples.