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A comparison between the Grid Test of Schizophrenic Thought Disorder and diagnostic psychologicaI testing
Author(s) -
JOENSEN EYDUN,
LUND YRSA,
RICHARDT CLAUS
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1977.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - psychology , thought disorder , projective test , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , test (biology) , cognition , concreteness , developmental psychology , construct validity , construct (python library) , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , psychometrics , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , paleontology , computer science , biology , programming language
.— Bannister and Fransella's Grid Test of Schizophrenic Thought Disorder based on Personal Construct Theory and the concept of “loosened construing”, as measurable in the scores of Intensity and Consistency between intercorrelations, has been applied to a Scandinavian sample of psychiatric patients. The validity of the test was illustrated, and a significant difference was found between a group of schizophrenics and schizophrenic borderline states and a group without schizophrenic thought disorders. The Grid Test scores were found to agree with thought disorder manifestations as evaluated in qualitative terms on the basis of cognitive and projective tests, but they did not differentiate between developmental levels of thinking corresponding to con‐creteness in organic impairment versus diffuseness in schizophrenia. Thus, the concept of “loosened construing” as applied in this thought disorder test seems too unspecific.