The Wittenborn psychiatric syndromes: An oblique rotation.

Lorr, Maurice

doi:10.1037/h0047293

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“…Despite significant variation in format, construct representation and era, the factor structures of these symptom measures are remarkably consistent. Some of the earliest studies, conducted during the DSM-I era (Wittenborn, 1951; Wittenborn & Holzberg, 1951; Lorr, 1957), report lower-level symptom factors that are strikingly similar to those conducted more recently during the DSM-IV era (e.g. Krabbendam et al 2004; Dikeos et al 2006).…”

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Modeling psychopathology structure: a symptom-level analysis of Axis I and II disorders

2009

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These results extend existing model frameworks 'downward' as well as 'outward', by analyzing symptoms rather than diagnoses, and by integrating symptoms from Axis I and II disorders in a common framework. This model demonstrates the importance of hierarchy in psychopathology structure, comprises replicable features of psychopathology structure, and has important implications for understanding the nature and organization of mental disorders.

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“…One obvious possibility is that the more specific syndromes are subtypes of the more general clusters. Lorr (1957) found evidence for this possibility when he subjected some of the Wittenborn data (Wittenborn & Holzberg, 1951) to factor analysis by oblique and second-order methods. He found three second-order factors, the first of which represented a "general turning against the self.…”

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The classification of children's psychiatric symptoms: A factor-analytic study.

Achenbach

1966

Psychological Monographs: General and Applied

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Symptoms from the case histories of 300 male and 300 female child psychiatric patients were analyzed, separately for each sex, by the principal-factor method with quartimax, varimax, and oblimin rotations. Classification of the Ss according to the 1st principal factor and the reliable rotated factors showed that symptom clusterings at 2 levels of generality were present: there was a general polar dichotomy given the label Internalizing versus Externalizing, and there were several specific syndromes, some resembling traditional psychiatric diagnoses and some peculiar to certain developmental stages. Biographical differences among the Ss suggested that the Internalizing-Externalizing dichotomy and those specific syndromes subsumed by it reflected differences in socialization, while the syndromes not subsumed by it did not reflect socialization differences. The factors obtained can be used to classify child psychiatric patients for research purposes.

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“…The original items describing more than 200 of these behaviors were first identified and collected into scales in the middle of the past century to classify either children (e.g., Hewitt & Jenkins, 1946) or adults (e.g., Guertin, 1952;Wittenborn & Holzberg, 1951). In the 1950s and early 1960s, several studies identified factors or dimensions around which these behaviors clustered (Guertin, 1952;Hewitt & Jenkins, 1946;Lorr, 1957;Peterson, 1961;Quay & Peterson, 1960;Wittenborn & Holzberg, 1951). Common dimensions identified by Hewitt and Jenkins (1946) and others included a distinction between children with overinhibited, anxious, or internalizing behaviors and children with aggressive, antisocial, or externalizing behaviors (Bennett, 1960;Ross, 1959).…”

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A Cross-Ethnic Validity Study of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)

Tyson

Glisson

2005

Research on Social Work Practice

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Objective: This study examined the cross-ethnic measurement equivalence of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC) using a sample of 562 African American and 692 White children. Method: A prospective, two-panel survey design was used in this study. Baseline and 6-month follow-up data were used to conduct analyses of the reliability and validity of the SAC for each group. Results: Alpha reliabilities and test-retest reliabilities for the full scale and for each subscale (i.e., externalizing and internalizing) were good for both groups. There were more similarities than there were differences between the two groups in terms of criterion validity. Factorial equivalence findings suggested that the factor structure of the SAC was equivalent across the two groups. Conclusions: The SAC is a valid behavioral rating scale that can be used by social work practitioners and service providers working with African American and White children in the child welfare and juvenile system.

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The Wittenborn psychiatric syndromes: An oblique rotation.

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Modeling psychopathology structure: a symptom-level analysis of Axis I and II disorders

Modeling psychopathology structure: a symptom-level analysis of Axis I and II disorders

The classification of children's psychiatric symptoms: A factor-analytic study.

A Cross-Ethnic Validity Study of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)

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