Interrelationships of Psychopathology and Adience-Abience on the HABGT

Abstract

Using two distinctively different populations, 40 hospitalized schizophrenics and 100 outpatient therapy cases, the interrelationships of two measures based on the HABGT, One of psychopathology and the other of perceptual adience-abience, were investigated. The relationships of each of these measures with sex, age, and educational level were examined. Both measures significantly differentiate the psychotic from the nonpsychotic population. Although there is a statistically significant correlation between the two measures in each population, it is shown that the commonality between them varies from a considerable degree of commonality in the schizophrenic group to only a limited degree in the outpatient group. Both measures are uncorrelated with sex, age, and level of educational attainment. The study offers additional evidence of the values of these two measures.