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A Delusional Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. A. Foulds  and
K. Hope
G. A. Foulds
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Unit for Research on the Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness, Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Morningside Park, Edinburgh 10
K. Hope
Affiliation:
Nuffield College, Oxford
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A psychotic v. neurotic scale has been presented in the manual of the Symptom-Sign Inventory (Foulds and Hope, 1968). This scale was constructed after comparing each of four female neurotic groups with each of four female psychotic groups and each of four male neurotic groups with each of four male psychotic groups. For an item to be included in the scale 14 of the 16 comparisons within each sex had to show differences significant at least at the 5 per cent. level. On 18 items the psychotic groups had frequencies in excess of the neurotic; on only one item was it the other way round. The scale score is the sum of these 18 items minus the one.

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Shorter Papers
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 520 , March 1969 , pp. 335 - 337
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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