In:
Perceptual and Motor Skills, SAGE Publications, Vol. 67, No. 1 ( 1988-08), p. 199-207
Abstract:
This study tested the hypothesis that the Last and Weiss (1976) Rorschach Ego-Strength Scale (Σ E) would predict outcome among a representative sample of never-hospitalized psychiatric outpatients. 78 patients were assessed with structured symptom, psychiatric history, and social data interviews at the time of initial clinic contact and at 2-yr. follow-up. Outcome measures included the Menninger Health-Sickness Scale, a multidimensional variable involving social and work functioning and recent symptom level, symptom measures, and an index of diagnostic severity. Σ E, controlled for number of responses, correlated significantly with Health-Sickness, neurotic symptoms, diagnostic severity, and psychotic symptomatology. Among the components of Σ E, M +, and FC + had significant relationships or contributed to significant relations with outcome variables. Considered with an earlier study of inpatients, in which S + Σ E component correlated inversely with outcome, this study suggested that Σ E components have differing prognostic significance, depending on adaptational level of the patient.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0031-5125
,
1558-688X
DOI:
10.2466/pms.1988.67.1.199
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
1988
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2066876-4
SSG:
5,2
SSG:
7,11
SSG:
31
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