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The Validity of the Five‐Minute Speech Sample as an Index of Expressed Emotion in Parents of Eating Disorder Patients
Author(s) -
Furth Eric F.,
Strien Din C.,
Son Maarten J. M.,
Engeland Herman
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01786.x
Subject(s) - expressed emotion , psychology , psychopathology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , sample (material) , anorexia nervosa , bulimia nervosa , clinical psychology , eating disorders , concurrent validity , psychiatry , developmental psychology , psychometrics , chemistry , chromatography , internal consistency
— This article examines the concurrent validity of the Five‐Minute Speech Sample (FMSS) as an index of Expressed Emotion in a Dutch sample of 84 parents of adolescents suffering from anorexia or bulimia nervosa. The Camberwell Family Interview (CFI), the criterion measure of EE, and the FMSS were conducted on the same day. The levels of Expressed Emotion in these families were low when compared with the EE ratings from the schizophrenia studies. The FMSS and CFI‐EE ratings showed a limited degree of overlap. Whether the limited association between the two methods is due to the low levels of criticism in our sample, to cultural differences and/or to differences in the psychopathology under study remains unclear.