Paralinguistic characteristics of speech in schizophrenics and depressives.
Schizophrenics, depressives, patients with anxiety neurosis and normal controls were asked to comment freely for 2 min on photographs depicting seven facial emotional expressions. Schizophrenics commented for the shortest duration of time with characteristic vocalization; depressives' speech was characterized by low initiative time latency, greater duration of utterance but fewer word-counts.
Mandal
M K
MK
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, India.
Srivastava
P
P
Singh
S K
SK
D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012564:Schizophrenic Language; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D014705:Verbal Behavior