Differentiating schizophrenics through parental conflict.
Compared 154 parents of Schizophrenic Maladjusted, and Community young people (S, M, C) through the Conflict in Marriage Scale (CIMS), an agree-disagree card sort. Both men and women could be differentiated accurately according to the diagnostic group of their offspring (discriminant function analysis). On CIMS items that showed at least a 20% difference between any two diagnostic groups in proportion of affirmative response, S fathers were intermediate between M and C fathers significantly more often than in a high or low (extreme) position.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D010290:Parents; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics