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- Title
Can Communication Deviance Be Measured in a Family Problem-Solving lnteraction?
- Authors
VELLIGAN, DAWN I.; GOLDSTEIN, MICHAEL J.; NUECHTERLEIN, KEITH H.; MIKLOWITZ, DAVID J.; RANLETT, GREGORY
- Abstract
Communication deviance (CD) refers to confusing and fragmented communication that prevents family members from attaining a shared focus of attention and meaning. Levels of communication deviance based on individual parental projective test protocols—Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and Rorschach—have repeatedly been found to be higher in parents of schizophrenic offspring than in parents of normal or nonpsychotic offspring. CD has also been measured in family transactions in which parents and their offspring interact with one another around a projective test stimulus, the Consensus Rorschach. There have been relatively few attempts to measure specific CD codes in familial interaction that is not initiated around an ambiguous visual stimulus. The present article examines the reliability and construct validity of an interactional measure (lCD) obtained from family transactions in which parents and patients are working toward the solution of a salient family problem. lCD from this family problem-solving task was compared to more traditional measures of CD from parental TAT protocols in a sample of 59 parents of 37 recent-onset schizophrenic patients. Results indicated that CD could be reliably measured in an interactive setting not initiated around a projective test stimulus, and provided evidence for the construct validity of lCD.
- Subjects
PEOPLE with schizophrenia; PSYCHOTIC depression; CHILDREN with mental illness; VISUAL learning; VISUAL perception; VISUAL education; PROBLEM solving; DECISION making; PERSONALITY tests
- Publication
Family Process, 1990, Vol 29, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.1990.00213.x