The German translation and validation of the scale for the assessment of thought, language and communication: a factor analytic study
| Autor: | Tobias Hornig, Axel Krug, Lena Turner, Tilo Kircher, Christian Schales, Michael Katzev, Paul Fährmann, Arne Nagels, Sayed Ghazi, Mirjam Stratmann, Rüdiger Müller-Isberner, Michael Frauenheim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Bipolar Disorder Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Semantics Factor (chord) German International Classification of Diseases Germany Interview Psychological medicine Humans Translations Language Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Depression Communication Thought disorder Healthy subjects Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Scale (music) language.human_language Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology language Schizophrenia Female Schizophrenic Psychology medicine.symptom Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical Mania Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychopathology. 46(6) |
| ISSN: | 1423-033X |
| Popis: | The Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication (TLC) represents an instrument for the assessment of formal thought disorder (FTD). The factorial dimensionality of the TLC has yielded ambiguous results for a distinction between positive (e.g. circumstantiality) and negative (e.g. poverty of speech) FTD. The purpose of the current study was to first translate and validate the TLC scale in German. Second, the internal structure was explored in order to identify different FTD dimensions. Two hundred and ten participants (146 patients with ICD-10 diagnoses: depression n = 63, schizophrenia n = 63, mania n = 20; 64 healthy subjects) were interviewed and FTD was rated with the TLC. The principal component analysis of the German TLC version revealed a 3-factor solution, reflecting a disorganized factor, an emptiness factor and a linguistic control factor. The current investigation yielded similar results to those originally reported for the TLC. Thus, a distinction between a positive disorganized, a negative and a semantic word level factor can be supported for the German translation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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