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F C Thorne

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1981

Schizophrenic, alcoholic, felon and management factor compositions of social status.

Administered the Social Status Study scale to four different groups: 174 incarcerated felons, 125 alcoholics, 278 management consultants, and 388 chronic undifferentiated schizophrenics. Five factors were derived fro each of the four populations. Major finding is that factorial composition of the groups is dependent upon specific population characteristics, and the overall factors are not sufficient for clinical judgment of individuals from different subgroups. The resulting factors were clearly unique in depicting social adjustment maladjustment styles in each of the clinical groups.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1981

Social factors ion schizophrenic, alcoholic, executive and prison populations.

Investigated factorial structure of social status in hospitalized schizophrenics, alcoholics, executives and prison populations totaling 965 Ss. Five major factors were derived from the data obtained by administration of a 200-item Social Status Study instrument: Factor I--Social Class Role; Factor II--Conservative Citizen Role; Factor II--Worker Status Role; Factor IV--Political Citizen Role, and Factor V--Political-Social Mobility. Description of the levels of integration along the personal-social dimension represented by the four clinical groups was proposed.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

The Personal Health Survey.

The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item inventory that consists of 12 scales of empirically constructed items that relate to symptomatology from the principal psychophysiological supporting systems. The PHS was administered to 730 Ss in five clinical groups. Base rates of responding T or F to each item were compared across the five diagnostic groups. The test results were factor analyzed with a principal component method combined with Varimax rotation. The factors were orthogonal. Five main factors were extracted from the overall population and from each of the five subgroups and compared as to item composition. Administration, scoring, interpretation and validation of the empirical and factored scales are discussed.

Factor Analysis, Statistical↗
PubMed1978

Factored scales for the Personal Health Survey with schizophrenics, alcoholics, felons, unmarried mothers, and college students.

Employed the Personal Health Survey (PHS) to study patterns of symptomology related to physical and mental health in a population of 730 Ss, which consisted of five subgroups: felons, hospitalized alcoholics, unmarried mothers, college students and institutionalized schizophrenics. The factorial data were analyzed in terms of (a) size of item factor loadings; (b) base rates of responding True to each item; and (c) clinical judgments as to the specificity and meaning of the items and factor scale patterns. Five main factors were extracted: Factor I--General health status; Factor II--Sociopathic character disorders; Factor III--Mixed psychiatric symptoms; Factor IV--Anxiety state with psychosomatic symptoms and general nervousness; and Factor V--Schizophrenicity.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1978

The factorial structure of the Personal Health Survey in normals and schizophrenics.

Administered the Personal Health Survey to five different groups: 74 incarcerated felons, 47 hospitalized alcoholics, 172 unmarried mothers, 51 college students, and 386 hospitalized chronic schizophrenics. On 191 of 200 items, the schizophrenics had higher base rates than any other group. Although some groups did not have large enough Ns for statistically adequate factor analyses, factorial studies also were done on the four control groups. Every group studied gave different factor patterns, with different orders of emergence of factors, different item loadings and heterogeneous composition of items. It is concluded that subgroups should be factored independently across time to determine population characteristics because overall population patterns do not make possible more than general predictions about subgroups. Individuals cannot be predicted from either overall or subgroup factorial characteristics.

Affective Symptoms↗
PubMed1978

Methodological advances in the validation of inventory items, scales, profiles and interpretations.

Factor analytic research is still in its infancy--theoretically, methodologically, and interpretively. Definitive research has not yet been done on problems of (a) item design and selection of items suitable for factor analysis; (b) identification of highly significant marker items; (c) tracings of item response distributions across scales, populations, occasions and other relevant variables; (d) determination of the number of items with different loadings necessary to obtain valid scale scores for psychological state measurements; (e) questions about the validity of summating factorially heterogeneous lowly correlated items in arriving at scale scores; (f) the use of clinical judgment to evaluate the possibly differing significances of the same item responses across populations and occasions; i.e., does the same factored item response have the same significance across scales?; (g) how to interpret scales with factorially mixed item compositions; (h) clinical judgement decisions in evaluating and interpreting scale meanings; and (i) the comparison of the results of analyzing data by different scaling methods. This study makes a start toward clarifying these methodological issues by analyzing the results of applying different methods of scale construction that utilized 146,000 item responses made by 730 Ss on the Personal Health Survey, a 200-item inventory designed to measure organ system functioning that contributes to physical and mental health.

Evaluation Studies as Topic↗
PubMed1977

A factorial structure of the dimensions of femininity in alcoholic, schizophrenic and normal populations .

The Femininity Study was administered tl 31 alcoholic females, 146 college females, and 152 female schizophrenic patients. The data were factor analyzed: five major factors were identified: (1) heterosexual social role inadaptability; (2) parental role inadaptability; (3) homemaker role inadaptability; (4) general affective (neurotic) instability; and (5) maternal role inadaptability. The institutionalized women showed much greater incidence of all types of inadaptability.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

Comparative study of the factorial composition of femininity in alcoholic, schizophrenic and normal populations.

The Femininity Study (Thorne, 1965) was administered to a total of 329 women, which included alcoholic females, Skidmore College students, University of Alberta students, and institutionalized chronic undifferentiated schizophrenics. In the alcoholic women, the first five factors were labeled high interpersonal adaptability, heterosexual role inadaptability, female role ambivalence, female identification problems, and maternal role inadaptability. In the Skidmore College population, the first five factors were heterosexual role inadaptability, general female role inadaptability, physical and/or psychosomatic disabilities with low female self-concepts, positive female self-concepts and interests, and emancipated female role concepts. In the University of Alberta women, the first five factors were heterosexual and general social inadaptability, heterosexual interests and adaptability, homosexual tendencies, conflictual sexuality, and emancipated female role concepts. In the institutionalized schizophrenics, the five factors were homosexual conflicts, heterosexual adaptability, rejection of parental-caretaker roles, promiscuity, and negative sexual self-concepts.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1977

The measurement of femininity.

Preliminary empiric research with The Femininity Study identifies 10 factorially derived factors that indicate the general dimmensions of femininity with particular reference to female self-concept, feelings of inadequacy related to sexual characteristics, and deficiencies of female role-playing. Pilot studies indicate that wide differences occur across time both individually and in different demographic groups so that it is necessary to study the development of sex attitudes across time. Further cross-sectional and longitudinal studies are necessary to discover whether the derived factors are specific to females or distributed in differing degrees among humans in general. No assumptions were made as to whether the obtained factors are unipolar or bipolar, and the present data do not resolve this issue.

Attitude↗
PubMed1977

A factorial study of personal development of unmarried mothers, college, alcoholic, and schizophrenic populations.

Reported the results of a factor analytic study of the Personal Development Study (PDS). The PDS was administered for research purposes to four diagnostic groups, which included 89 institutionalized alcoholics, 336 unmarried mothers, 159 college students, and 388 chronic schizophrenics. A principal component factor analysis with Varimax rotation performed on the combined populations (N = 972) yielded five main factors labeled as projection, optimism-responsibility, reaction and symptom formation, repressive-compulsive, and intropunitiveness-guilt. Analysis of base rates of responding to the individual items revealed that the four populations ranged along a continuum, with the normals at one extreme and the institutionalized schizophrenics at the other extreme of greater pathological responding.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

The factorial structure of personal development mechanisms in unmarried mothers, college, alcoholic, and schizophrenic populations.

The Personal Development Study (PDS) was administered to four diagnostic groups, which included 89 hospitalized alcoholics, 336 unmarried mothers, 159 college students, and 387 chronic institutionalized schizophrenics. The PDS data from the four groups were factor analyzed separately by Varimax rotation of principal component factors. Cluster analysis methods were used to compare the separate diagnostic group factors with the overall factors previously reported by Pishkin and Thorne (1977). Only a few close fits of the diagnostic group factors showed large differences in item composition, order of emergence of factors and size of loadings between groups. Because many items and factors could be interpreted in terms of several alternative theoretical systems, interpretations were based on the clinical meanings of items and clusters in terms of integration theory (Thorne, 1976).

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

A new approach to psychopathology.

A new approach to psychopathology based on the psychology of integration as applied to psychological states is outlined. Because all raw behavior occurs only in the form of psychological states, all formulations of psychopathology must refer to integrative disorders that are postulated to underlie all pathological or defective behaviors. Disintegration is the one common factor found in all mental disorders. Lack of integration underlies most inadaptability. The classical field of psychopathology, which formerly was limited to the consideration of formal psychiatric disorders, now is expanded to include deficits, imbalances and disintegrations of acute or chornic nature that result in erroneous or less than perfect judgments. Judgment is considered to reflect the quality of underlying integrative processes. Judgmental defects that lead to maladaptive decisions inevitably must result in maladjustment and/or less than perfect performance. It is necessary to differentiate between (a) integrative disorders per se, and (b) the personal-social effects of positive or negative integrations organized by healthy or unhealthy factors. Criminals may be well integrated in their asocial activities, but socially undesirable because organized about the criminal ethic. Postulates are presented that outline the theoretical assumptions upon which integrative psychopathology is based. This approach utilizes classic theories such as the Freudian psychopathology of everyday life when valid and relevant within the larger framework of integrative psychology. A differentiation is made between hierarchical levels of increasingly complex factors that may organize integration.

Autonomic Nervous System↗
PubMed1976

Reflections on the golden age of Columbia psychology.

This paper discusses the Golden Age (1920-1940) of the Columbia University psychology department and analyzes some of the sources of its strengths and weaknesses. Much of the credit goes to Robert S. Woodworth, the dean of American experimental psychology, who set up the objective eclectic orientation of the department, recruited a remarkable group of competent faculty members, and above all kept up a cooperative unified spirit in the department. Because the Columbia University psychology department was so influential during its Golden Age, its organization, staffing and departmental characteristics are analyzed. Probably the key to its success was the capability of a guiding genius, Robert S. Woodworth, who gathered a remarkable group of scholars about him. Woodworth's objective eclectic orientation provided the broadest possible approach within a rigorous experimental-statistical orientation. Woodworth's scholarly approach pervaded the department so that many of his colleagues also wrote pioneering encyclopedic works in their particular fields of specialization. The writings of the Columbia psychologists truly shaped the field.

Faculty↗