Open AccessFactor analysis of positive and negative syndrome scale in schizophrenia: An exploratory study
Author(s) -
Ajay Kumar,
Christoday Raja Jayant Khess
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.102419
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , positive and negative syndrome scale , psychology , exploratory factor analysis , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , psychosis , psychometrics , cartography , geography
Controversy persists with regard to how best we can categorize symptomatic dimension of Schizophrenia. Aim of the study was to compute factorial dimensions in Indian subset of schizophrenic patients and to compare them with five factor pentagonal model extracted in western studies.