Commonality of Word Association Response in Schizophrenia as a Function of Premorbid Adjustment, Chronicity, and Paranoid Status

Abstract

The Kent-Rosanoff Word Association test was administered to 102 hospitalized, adult, male schizophrenics. Neither chronicity nor paranoid status differentiated commonality of word association response. Premorbid adjustment level differentiated, but differences were in the direction opposite to those reported in previous research. That is, schizophrenics with poor premorbid adjustment exceeded those with good premorbid adjustment in mean commonality score.