title: Replication Of Symptom Distress Factors In Anxious Neurotic Outpatients.
abstract: In an attempt to replicate the factor structure of symptom distress re- ported by Mattsson et al. in their study of 404 anxious neurotic outpatients, the same 68-item pretreatment self-report Symptom Check List was administered to an independent but clinically similar sample of 1,116 patients. Using an identical factor-analytic procedure, five useful factors were extracted: Neurotic Feelings, Somatization, Performance Difficulty, Fear-Anxiety, and Depression. Four of these factors were almost identical to those reported by Mattsson e t al. while the fifth factor, Depression, seemed to represent a composite of the two small Depression factors (Anxious and Somatic) found in the earlier study. This minor discrepancy was discussed and the future research potential of these factors was indicated.
authors.forename: H V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Lipman
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rickels
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Covi
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Uhlenhuth
authors.forename: N B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Mattsson