title: Paranoid integration and thought disorder.
abstract: This study investigated the relationship between thought disorder as measured by Bannister's Grid Test and paranoid integration. Twenty-six hospitalized schizophrenics were subdivided into High Integration and Low integration groups on the basis of scores on Foulds' System-Sign Inventory. No significant differences were found between these groups on the thought-disorder measure. When the sample was subdivided into paranoid and nonparanoid groups on the basis of clinical diagnosis, paranoids were found to be significantly less thought disordered than nonparanoids.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology