Evelyn Crumpton

Estimating WAIS-R IQ from the Shipley Institute of Living Scale

Linear regression techniques and continuous norning were used to develop a procedure to estimate age-adjusted WAIS-R IQ scores from the Shipley Institute of Living Scale. The estimation procedure was derived on a mixed psychiatric sample of 100 inpatients in a Veterans Administration hospital setting and then was replicated on an independent sample of 50 psychiatric inpatients. Estimated scores based on the cross-validation sample correlated.87 and.85, respectively, with WAIS-R Full Scale scaled scores and IQs and did not over predict, which indicates a high degree of concordance between these two procedures. The estimation procedure also compared favorably to five other techniques initially developed for use with the WAIS or Wechsler-Bellevue. In light of this favorable outcome, this estimation procedure is recommended for use in clinical and research settings in which a brief but accurate IQ estimate is desired.

The Marijuana Problem

Abstract Use of marijuana is increasing. Although predominantly used by young people, it is not confined to any age, social, or occupational group. Marijuana is unusually safe (as compared with alc...

The “Meaning” of Rorschach Color Cards as a Function of Color

Abstract This study was aimed at the general problem of differentiating what is elicited by the stimulus characteristics of the Rorschach inkblots and what is emitted by the subject as an expression of his own unique personality. The specific purpose was to determine the effect of color on the connotations of the Rorschach color cards as perceived by schizophrenic patients. Each of 50 hospitalized male veteran schizophrenic patients rated a 15-scale semantic differential to express his response to each of 14 Rorschach cards: the five color cards, achromatic versions of the five color cards, and two achromatic cards each presented twice. Results clearly supported the hypothesis that color affected the connotative impact of the Rorschach color cards. With respect to factor scores, there was a tendency for all of the color cards to be rated in the same direction, as higher in evaluation and activity and lower in potency. Differences were also found with respect to ratings on individual scales.

What Mental Illness Labels Mean to Schizophrenics

The aim of the study was to determine what the schizophrenic thinks about some of the labels applied to him: “crazy,” “insane,” “mental patient,” “person with something wrong with his nerves,” “schizophrenic,” “sick.” 68 schizophrenics rated a 15-scale semantic differential for each of these concepts and for the control concept, “person.” Ratings for each of the labels differed markedly from ratings for “person” on many of the 15 scales, especially those scales representing the evaluation factor. While there were minor differences in order from scale to scale, in general “mental patient” and “schizophrenic” were rated about the same and closer to “person” than were the other scales: “crazy” and “insane” were most dissimilar to “person;” and “sick” was unexpectedly in the middle. Ratings for the various labels were not significantly affected by severity of schizophrenia (as indicated by symptom checklist scores) or by the relative frequency of negatively-toned self-descriptions on an adjective checklist.

The veteran NP patient: 10 years ago and now

I,s the veteran entering a neuropsychiatrie hospital today a different man from the veteran who came in the years just after World War II? Is he really 10 or more years older and that much sicker ? Is the outlook more grim? Should we change our treatment procedures ? A search of the literature revealed no systematic study o.f this problem. The only previous similar study was done on a ,state hospital population. 1 The too-prevalent opinion that the Veterans Administration neuropsychiatrie patient is now a chronic hopeless case seems to be based on some ea~sual observation, s and on the knowledge that World W a r I I is now nearly 17 years away. The problem of the present study is to determine what changes have taken place in the veteran e:ntering a neuropsychiatrie ,ho.spital in the late 1950% compared with 10 years before.