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Predicting schizophrenia outcome with self‐report measures of family interaction
Author(s) -
Hafner R. Julian,
Miller Robyn M.
Publication year - 1991
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(199101)47:1<33::aid-jclp2270470106>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , family environment scale , psychiatry , scale (ratio) , psychometrics , physics , quantum mechanics
This study is based on 18 patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital with a DSM‐III‐R diagnosis of schizophrenia who currently were living with one or both parents. Patients and parents completed several questionnaires, including the Parental Bonding Index (PBI), the Family Environment Scale (FES), the Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire (HDHQ), and the Brief Symptoms Inventory. Observer ratings of patients' symptoms also were made. Outcome was predicted best by patients' ratings of mothers on the PBI and by mothers' scores on the HDHQ Criticism of Others scale. Other significant outcome predictors were the number of previous admissions to hospital, patients' scores on the HDHQ Projected Hostility scale and the FES Expressiveness scale, and fathers' scores on the FES Achievement‐Orientation scale.