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Psychometric Changes Associated with Response to Drug Treatment
Author(s) -
PHILIP ALISTAIR E.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1971.tb00726.x
Subject(s) - psychology , seriousness , anxiety , clinical psychology , trait , depression (economics) , psychiatry , political science , computer science , law , economics , macroeconomics , programming language
Improved and unimproved depressed patients were compared on a number of psychological measures, each patient having been tested on three occasions. Analysis of variance showed that the Beck scale of depression, NSQ Anxiety and HDHQ Intropunitiveness showed differences between the groups and between occasions, there being significant interaction effects on the two former scales. NSQ Seriousness scores decreased over occasions, while NSQ Submissiveness, Tendermindedness and total score, along with the HOQ and HDHQ Extrapunitiveness, remained stable. These results are discussed in relation to other findings using the same or similar instruments. The need to distinguish between state and trait measures is discussed; the present study demonstrates how differences between psychiatric patients could be utilized in the study of function fluctuation.