title: Psychological construing and meaningfulness in schizophrenia.
abstract: The ratings of schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic in-patients on a Semantic Differential were compared. Those schizophrenic patients who obtained low scores on a test of psychological construing (the Grid Test) made less use than other schizophrenics of extreme ratings on psychological scales on the Semantic Differential. The two groups of schizophrenics did not differ on their use of non-psychological scales. This indicates that the psychological scales are relatively meaningless to this group of subjects. The findings may explain the presentation of symptoms in schizophrenic patients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012659:Semantic Differential