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Characteristics and Validity of the Grid Test of Thought Disorder
Author(s) -
BANNISTER D.,
FRANSELLA FAY,
AGNEW JOYCE
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.tb00727.x
Subject(s) - psychology , abnormality , test (biology) , construct (python library) , construct validity , sample (material) , validation test , grid , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , test validity , psychiatry , mathematics , paleontology , chemistry , geometry , chromatography , computer science , biology , programming language
A sample of 316 psychiatric admissions were given the Grid Test of Thought Disorder (Bannister & Fransella, 1966, 1967). Test indices were shown to relate to case note judgements and marginally to prognostic data of the ‘condition on discharge’ type. The relationship between grid scores and diagnostic category was examined. A measure of the degree of abnormality of patterning of construct relationships (Social Deviation) was derived from the grid and shown to relate to structural thought disorder, sex and presence of a precipitating factor for the ‘illness’. The process implications of the findings are discussed.