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A STUDY OF DIAGNOSTIC DIFFERENCES OF SOME FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES BY MEANS OF SELF‐REPORT TECHNIQUE AND BEHAVIOUR RATING WITH AN EXAMINATION OF PUNITIVENESS AS A VARIABLE IN THE PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS
Author(s) -
Verma R. M.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1974.tb07520.x
Subject(s) - hostility , psychology , clinical psychology , rating scale , psychiatry , psychosis , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , brief psychiatric rating scale , developmental psychology
Eighty‐eight psychotic patients of both sexes were studied in order to examine the relationship between the symptom‐complexes assessed on the Inpatient Multidimensional Psychiatric Scale and the diagnostic classifications estimated by means of the Symptom‐Sign Inventory. The results show some significant associations between the two assessments, but these associations do not present a differential picture for the different psychotic disorders. Further, a factor‐analytic treatment of the correlations between various symptom‐complexes and hostility assessments from the Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire yields five interpretable factors which can describe some of the functional psychotic disorders.