The state-type 60-item General Health Questionnaire was administered on two occasions, with intervening periods of 11–12 mo. and 6–7 mo., to 186 male school-leavers and 101 men facing redundancy, respectively. Significant test-retest correlations suggested that the questionnaire is to some considerable extent measuring an underlying tendency for normal subjects to report a general, minor, nonpsychotic psychiatric morbidity, as opposed to purely transitory fluctuations in mental well-being.
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