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Reliability And Validity Of The Cognitive Slippage Scale In Two Populations.

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Psychological reports

Volume

70

Issue

1

First Page

131

Last Page

136

Abstract

Analyses of responses from a clinical sample of 120 patients (primarily schizophrenics) and from 158 college students to the Cognitive Slippage Scale, a scale designed by Miers and Raulin to identify speech deficits and confused thinking in schizophrenic and schizotypal personality disorders showed high internal reliability; Cronbach's coefficients alpha were .89 and .86 in the clinical and college student samples, respectively. The mean scale scores significantly differentiated the two samples. Also, change scores over 4 wk. showed adequate stability for both samples. Item analysis indicated Items 11, 20, 21, and 28 may not reliably discriminate between schizophrenic and college student samples. Over-all, these preliminary results are consistent with the reliability and validity of the scale.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

1-1-1992

DOI of published version

10.2466/pr0.1992.70.1.131

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