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Premorbid competence has come to be considered an important dimension in predicting outcome in schizophrenia. From the growing number of social adjustment scales, this study focused on the four instruments that are currently used to assess premorbid competence specifically. The usefulness of these instruments was compared using the degree of inter-rater reliability and scale intercorrelation. Although the concept of premorbid adjustment appears increasingly complex, consisting of stages of adjustment and different levels for a single patient, at present the Phillips Scale has the best relative accuracy and clinical applicability.
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Psychological Tests , Schizophrenic Psychology , Social Adjustment , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Prognosis , Schizophrenia, Childhood/psychology , Schizotypal Personality Disorder/psychologyABSTRACT
The stimulus demands of TAT cards were evaluated by means of a TAT-Adjective Rating Scale. Seventeen needs were measured through adjective ratings. Mean needs were reported for 191 males and 85 females. Variability was used to develop a measure of stimulus ambiguity. Also investigated was (a) the partitioning of variance for subjects, cards, needs and their interactions, and (b) sex differences were evaluated by means of analysis of variance.
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Exposure duration has been found to have a strong impact on the affective value attributed to a variety of stimuli. The purpose of the study reported here was to examine the impact of this variable in projective testing, and im particular in the affective value subjects attribute to the TAT cards. Using 34 undergraduate students, a linear decrease in pleasantness was found as a function of exposure duration. Factors leading to variation in exposure duration might therefore be confounded with the interpretations made of a subject's protocol. It was suggested that the time a subject views a projective test stimulus should be controlled in the administration.
