The validity of the whitaker index of schizophrenic thinking

✍ Scribed by Raymond A. Knight; Bennet Epstein; Robert D. Zielony

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 570 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(198007)36:3<632::aid-jclp2270360304>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

B r a d i s Univereity

The Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking was designed to addresa an important clinical and research problem-the objective assessment of thought disorder. The present study assessed this test's convergent and discriminant validit 5nd its diagnostic discriminating power IN = 56). We found that the d S T has limted clinical utilit as a specific measure of disordered thought and as a diagnostic tool, but tiat it might still have certain important research applications.

'The authors would like to express their appreciation to the st& of the Brockton Veterans Administration Hos ital for their cooperation in this research. Reprint requesta should be sent to