title: Contributions of individual syndromes to global psychopathology ratings for mental health and substance abuse patients.
abstract: Used the SCL-90 Analogue to rate nine psychiatric syndromes-and overall psychopathology in 1,046 mental health and 809 substance abuse patients admitted to a large metropolitan, community mental health center. Stepwise multiple regressions of the nine syndrome ratings on the global psychopathology ratings for each sample indicated that different syndromes contributed meaningful amounts of variance to the explanations of the global psychopathology ratings. The salient syndromes for the mental health patients were Interpersonal Sensitivity and Psychoticism, whereas those for the substance above patients were Anxiety and Paranoid Ideation. Implications of the results for the wisdom of averaging syndrome ratings to calculate overall psychopathology were discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*