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The analysis of interactions in experiments on the specificity of schizophrenic thought disorder: A reply to Phillips
Author(s) -
Heather B. B.,
McPherson F. M.,
Sprent P.
Publication year - 1978
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.2044-8260.1978.tb00296.x
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , thought disorder , psychotherapist , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , psychosis
Phillips (1977) has criticized the investigation of statistical interactions in a series of related papers concerned with the specificity hypothesis of schizophrenic thought disorder. In a discussion of these criticisms, some are accepted and some rejected. However, when the relevant data are reanalysed by a correct method for the investigation of nominated interactions, the specificity hypothesis is broadly supported. A new finding to emerge from the reanalysis is that, in two experiments where level of ‘difficulty’ of constructs was controlled, the specificity effect appears much reduced or non‐existent when intensity scores are employed while remaining intact for consistency scores.