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Stability of unusual verbalizations on the Rorschach for outpatients with schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Adair Holiday E.,
Wagner Edwin E.
Publication year - 1992
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(199203)48:2<250::aid-jclp2270480218>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - rorschach test , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , persistence (discontinuity) , clinical psychology , schizophrenia spectrum , test (biology) , thought disorder , psychosis , psychiatry , paleontology , geotechnical engineering , engineering , biology
Rorschach protocols of 50 outpatients with schizophrenia who had been tested twice with an average interval of 6.4 years between administrations were scored blind by graduate students trained to detect Unusual Verbalizations (UVs). Scoring reliabilities were excellent and ranged from.93 to.99 for the WSUM6. There were no significant differences between mean group UV scores obtained at the first testing (T 1 ) and the second testing (T 2 ), which attests to the persistence of thought disorder in schizophrenia. The correlations between T 1 and T 2 testings were, however, modest at best. Deviant Verbalizations, the least pathological of the UV categories, showed the highest test‐retest relationship at.50. Tentative explanations for these findings were advanced.