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KMID : 0376519920110010146
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Mental Health Research
1992 Volume.11 No. 1 p.146 ~ p.163
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Formal Thought Disordered Schizophrenics' Cognitive Imbalance
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Abstract
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This study was designed to evaluate the construing of formal thought-disordered schizophrenics' personal construct system. Subjects were formal thought-disordered schizophrenic group(N=12), nonformal thought - disordered schizophrenic
group(N=12),
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normal group(N=12). Splitplot factorial design was used to evaluate the construing of three groups.
It was hypothesized that formal thoughtdisordered schizophrenics would manifest a relative lack of balance in the cognitive organization of affect in interconstruct and interfigure relations. Then, affective-cognitive imbalances were compared
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logical inconsitency and integrative complexity.The rating form Rep Grids and Coordinate Grid were used for these measures The results strongly supported the hypothesis evidencing a tendency toward imbalance among formal thought-disordered
schizophrenics in interconstruct as well as interfigure relations. For only cognitive differentiation phase, the balance principle operates as a basic conceptual rule. Integrative complexity (differentiation and integration) analysis method was
recommended to explain loose construing of formal thought-disordered schizophrenics.
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