Personality Structure in Psychotics by Factorization of Objective Clinical Tests

Abstract

To research workers in personality measurement the advance of routine testing procedures in clinical psychology has seemed peculiarly sluggish. Whereas solid theoretical foundations have been found for an account of the normal personality structure in factor analytic terms (5, 6, 7) and a rich variety of new tests has been created (8, 9, 14), the clinicians have confined themselves to one or two “gadget” tests, conceived with no more explicit relation to personality structure than a patent medicine has to modern physiological principles. The present research aims to bring factor structure measurement in a clinical population into relation with that found in normals and to provide a first, reproducible, test battery covering at least a dozen factors for use in clinics able to give sufficient time for valid and reliable measures of the primary personality dimensions.