Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores of adolescent psychiatric patients were correlated and factor analyzed. The purposes were to explore the factor structure of these scores among a psychiatric sample for comparison with other samples in the literature and to determine whether the PPVT adds sufficient information to an intellectual assessment battery. Three factors emerged that were similar to previously reported factors using other subject samples. The PPVT loaded heavily on the factors emerging from the WISC-R, suggesting that the PPVT adds little to information gained from the WISC-R.
We separated our topic into three broad areas: (a) how beliefs about weight control influence smoking initiation and how preventive interventions might affect these beliefs, (b) whether weight gain affects smoking cessation and relapse, and (c) what primary gaps in our information still remain. The major goal of Task Force 3 was to identify factors helpful in creating and assessing effective interventions. Several questions and unresolved issues were raised by this task force, and these were grouped by the following topics:
Two profile classification strategies were examined for use with the 12 clinical scales of the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC) : reciprocal twopoint code types and code type factor clusters. The PIC profiles of 556 children, who comprised six of the criterion groups used in PIC scale development, and the 6-16-year-old normative sample (« = 2,390) were classified by each system. Differences in frequencies across criterion groups of all the examined classification categories were significant and conceptually meaningful. Only 12% of the normative profiles had two or more Personality Inventory for Children clinical scales with T scores greater than 69. Additional study of a heterogeneous sample of 691 child guidance protocols compared code type classification rates using traditional rules with a revised classification system based upon previous actuarial study of individual profile scales. The possible interpretive significance of obtained sex and age differences in code type frequencies is discussed, as are proposed efforts to develop optimum code type interpretations.
The live birthweights and the birthweight Z score equivalents based upon state averages of 130 offspring of male and female schizophrenics were compared with state averages and with those of 150 offspring of nonschizophrenic psychiatric patient controls. Offspring of schizophrenics resembled the controls and the state averages with few exceptions. Schizophrenic fathers produced heavier birthweight children and the expected proportion of lower birthweight children. Offspring of schizophrenics born a year or more before onset of the parental disorder were significantly heavier than control offspring, although groups did not differ when birth was near or after breakdown.
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