[Multidimensional homogeneity analysis with small samples: comparison of different subgroups of people suffering from exclusion].
With the aim of studying the relationship between harmful biographical events and exclusion we have developed a rating scale for semi-structured biographical interviews. The rating scale was constructed in accordance with the phenomenological and structural approach and allows us gathering some clinically pertinent indicators concerning the course of life, the nature of the trauma, the composition of the original family, the life period of emotional pain and the current familiar and social support. The homogeneity or multiple correspondence analysis (HOMALS) led to the extraction of the fundamental dimensions underlying the data of three clinical subgroups of people suffering from exclusion and marginalization: homeless and long term unemployed people, immigrants, political refugees and asylum seekers, drug addicts. The results demonstrate the relevance of the multidimensional homogeneity analysis applied to this kind of data. On one hand they suggest a theoretical model of the relationship between harmful biographical events, vulnerability, exclusion and psychopathological complications. On the other hand they show that we are facing differential psychological profiles which will be studied thoroughly during the next stages of our research.
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Centre de Recherche Publique-Santé, Luxembourg. Lony.Schiltz@education.lu
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D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D018401:Sample Size; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis*