PREMORBID ADJUSTMENT, PARANOID-NONPARANOID STATUS, AND CHRONICITY IN SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENTS

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Abstract
The independence of three descriptive dimensions, commonly used in the design of experimental research on schizophrenia, was investigated. The subjects were 258 male schizophrenic patients from three Boston area hospitals, two private and one public. Only paranoid status was found to be independent of the other two dimensions. Premorbid adjustment and chronicity of symptoms (defined by length of hospitalization) were significantly correlated, rt=.31. Data analysis and discussion focused specifically on the inconsistency between these data and those reported by Goldstein, Held, and Cromwell (1968) on the same problem. Differences in the populations sampled and in patient selection procedures were carefully examined but failed to resolve the inconsistency.

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