title: Factored scales for the Personal Health Survey with schizophrenics, alcoholics, felons, unmarried mothers, and college students.
abstract: Employed the Personal Health Survey (PHS) to study patterns of symptomology related to physical and mental health in a population of 730 Ss, which consisted of five subgroups: felons, hospitalized alcoholics, unmarried mothers, college students and institutionalized schizophrenics. The factorial data were analyzed in terms of (a) size of item factor loadings; (b) base rates of responding True to each item; and (c) clinical judgments as to the specificity and meaning of the items and factor scale patterns. Five main factors were extracted: Factor I--General health status; Factor II--Sociopathic character disorders; Factor III--Mixed psychiatric symptoms; Factor IV--Anxiety state with psychosomatic symptoms and general nervousness; and Factor V--Schizophrenicity.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007086:Illegitimacy; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011329:Prisoners; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012928:Social Desirability