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- Title
P01-417 - Validation of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test - German version & Stroop-Test
- Authors
Jantscher, S.; Willinger, U.; Schmoeger, M.; Mueller, C.; Auff, E.
- Abstract
The Hayling Sentence Competion Test (HSCT) consists of two sections and measures response initiation and inhibitory control. In the first section subjects are instructed to produce a single word to complete a sentence and in the response inhibition condition subjects are instructed to produce a contextually unconnected word. Several studies evidence that these abilities, which are associated with frontal lobe dysfunction and dysexecutive symptoms in evereyday life (Burgess & Shallice, 1996b), are impaired in psychiatric patients particularly in patients with schizophenia and major depression (Gohier et al., 2009; Chan et al., 2010; Joshua et al., 2009). The present study aims to examine the adapted German version of the HSCT by Willinger and Diendorfer (2009) upon a non-clinical sample and its relationship to Stroop-Test. The sample was composed of 74 adults (36 women and 38 men) ranging in age from 19 to 66. Reliability analyses of the HSCT yielded a Cronbachs''s alpha of 0.45 (response initiation), and 0.92 (response inhibition). Correlation analyses between Stroop Cards 1 and 2 and HSCT initiation condition showed a medium effect (r=0.378; p=0.001), further correlation analyses indicated no assocation between Stroop Card 3 and HSCT inhibition condition (r=0.070; p=0.560). The high reliability regarding response inhibition seems to be promising. Further investigations considering executive functions such as word fluency are necessary.
- Subjects
SENTENCE completion tests; STROOP effect; FRONTAL lobe diseases; PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; PEOPLE with schizophrenia; MENTAL depression
- Publication
European Psychiatry, 2011, Vol 26, p420
- ISSN
0924-9338
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.1016/S0924-9338(11)72128-9