Administered the Social Status Study scale to four different groups: 174 incarcerated felons, 125 alcoholics, 278 management consultants, and 388 chronic undifferentiated schizophrenics. Five factors were derived for each of the four populations. Major finding is that factorial composition of the roups is dependent upon specific population characteristics and the overall factors are not sufficient for clinical judgment of individuals from different subgroups. The resulting factors were clear1 maladjustment styles in each of tge clinical groups.
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This third phase of the Social Status Study (SSS) research focused on the analysis of factorial structure of the four distinct populations (schizophrenics, alcoholics, felons and successful, normal adults) that were referred to as "Diagnostic Groups" in the previous overall factor analysis of the combined results on this scale (Pishkin & Thorne, 1980a). Five overall factors emerged in the analysis of the combined group data labeled as (I) Social Class Role; (11) Conservative Citizen Role; (111) Worker Status Role; (IV) Political Citizen Role; and (V) Political-Social Mobility. Because we have established in the previous studies, with the Integration Level Test Series (ILTS), that the factorial patterns of inventory responses vary very widely among groups, this phase of the investigation will elaborate patterns of social status parameters among the four clinical groups included in the current SSS sample.