Analysis of structural factors in schizophrenic delusions.
A previous factor analysis of delusional properties, scored from verbatim typescripts of interviews held with 32 schizophrenic patients, had generated four interpretable factors. The present study considered the meaning of these qualitative factors in terms of their relationships to four types of information potentially important to understanding the development or maintenance of delusions--sex gender, intelligence, chronicity, and type of delusion (e.g., persecution, grandeur). The possible contribution of factorial structure to understanding delusional behavior was indicated by the number of relationships found between these factors and the independent variables.
D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003702:Delusions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors