Structural Differences within Negative and Depressive Syndrome Dimensions in Schizophrenia, Organic Brain Disease, and Major Depression: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale

• Published in: Psychopathology Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 242 - 248
• Main Authors: Eisenberg, Daniel P., Aniskin, Dmitry B., White, Leonard, Stein, Judith A., Harvey, Philip D., Galynker, Igor I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland Karger 01.01.2009; S. Karger AG
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Dementia - diagnosis; Dementia - psychology; Depressive Disorder - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder - psychology; Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Original Paper; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reproducibility of Results; Schizophrenia - diagnosis; Schizophrenic Psychology; Syndrome; Techniques and methods; Schizophrenia; Confirmatory factor analysis; Negative symptoms; Organic brain disease; Major depression; Mood disorder; Human; Nervous system diseases; Psychometrics; Depression; Nosology; Organic brain syndrome; Cerebral disorder; Organic mental disorder; Psychosis; Test validation; Criterion; Negative symptom; Central nervous system disease; Classification; Diagnosis; Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale Kay et al; Comparative study
• ISSN: 0254-4962; 1423-033X; 1423-033X
• DOI: 10.1159/000218522

Objective: The emerging dimensional approach to classification and treatment of psychiatric disorders calls for better understanding of diagnosis-related variations in psychiatric syndromes and for proper validation of psychometric scales used for the evaluation of those syndromes. This study tested...