Institutionalization and Perceptual Decrement in Chronic Schizophrenia
- 1 August 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 21 (1) , 244-246
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1965.21.1.244
Abstract
Data obtained from a cross-sectional study of perceptual changes in chronic schizophrenia were re-analyzed to determine what effects, if any, institutionalization exerted on perception. When duration of illness was held constant, it was found that schizophrenic Ss with a high percentage of institutionalization time were equivalent to Ss with a low percentage of institutionalization time on three perceptual tasks known to be affected by chronicity. Assertions that psychological changes take place through institutionalization alone are called into question.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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