Relationship between the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List for Schizophrenic Women

Abstract

The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale and Multiple Affect Adjective Check List were administered to 75 schizophrenic women. A principal component analysis of the correlations between the former instrument's 18 symptoms and the latter instrument's measures of Anxiety, Depression, and Hostility indicated that the checklist's scales loaded together on one component along with the rating scale's symptom of hallucinatory behavior. The conclusion was drawn that the scales had measured different aspects of psychopathology in schizophrenic women.