Parental Transactional Style Deviance as a Possible Indicator of Risk for Schizophrenia

Jones, James E.

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1977.01770130073007

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“…Reported elsewhere (8,10) are the results of a subsequent investigation in which the scoring system was applied to TAT data of parents in the prospective sample of the UCLA Family Project. Reported elsewhere (8,10) are the results of a subsequent investigation in which the scoring system was applied to TAT data of parents in the prospective sample of the UCLA Family Project.…”

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Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Jones

1977

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Parents of schizophrenics show more transactional style deviance in diverse situations than do other parents. In a sample of families of nonschizophrenic outpatient adolescents, a manual for scoring such deviance on stories told for seven TAT cards was developed. This scoring system was shown to be composed of six meaningful factors. When this system was applied to the TAT's of parents of offspring with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, a total deviance score did not discriminate among the parents. High scores on two particular factors were found only in parents of hospitalized schizophrenics, but four factors were nondiscriminating. Parents of young adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorders were more likely to show high scores on at least one of these six factors than other parents. Considering the scores of mothers and fathers together yielded the best discrimination of parents of schizophrenia spectrum disorders from other parents.

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Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

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1977

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“…This type of prospective investigation has been employed by the UCLA Family Project (8) in the study of the families of behaviorally disturbed, but non‐psychotic, adolescents. Jones et al (12) identified a subgroup of these adolescents hypothesized to be at high risk for subsequent schizophrenia by assessing communication deviance in the parents.…”

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Lack of Acknowledgment in the Family Rorschachs of Families With a Child at Risk for Schizophrenia

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1976

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Lack of acknowledgment, a characteristic of the direct interactions of families of schizophrenics, was found also to characterize the Family Rorschach interactions of families whose disturbed, non-psychotic adolescents were assessed at high risk for schizophrenia on the basis of parental communication deviance. The same high-risk families had unbalanced interaction patterns as reflected in three measures of family structure.

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“…The presence of these factors was considered to be particularly important in a high-risk study of disturbed adolescents, which found that if either parent from a dual-parent family scored high on one of these factors, their offspring had a greater chance of developing a disorder within the schizophrenic spectrum at 5-year followup (15). The presence of these factors was considered to be particularly important in a high-risk study of disturbed adolescents, which found that if either parent from a dual-parent family scored high on one of these factors, their offspring had a greater chance of developing a disorder within the schizophrenic spectrum at 5-year followup (15).…”

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“…Jones, Rodnick, Goldstein, et al (15) developed a measure for coding CD in transcripts of family interaction segments. These codes focused mainly on grammatical problems such as run-on sentences and misuse of conjunctions.…”

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Can Communication Deviance Be Measured in a Family Problem‐Solving Interaction?

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Communication deviance (CD) refers to confusing and fragmented communication that prevents family members from attaining a shared focus of attention and meaning. Levels of communication deviance based on individual parental projective test protocols--Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and Rorschach--have repeatedly been found to be higher in parents of schizophrenic offspring than in parents of normal or nonpsychotic offspring. CD has also been measured in family transactions in which parents and their offspring interact with one another around a projective test stimulus, the Consensus Rorschach. There have been relatively few attempts to measure specific CD codes in familial interaction that is not initiated around an ambiguous visual stimulus. The present article examines the reliability and construct validity of an interactional measure (ICD) obtained from family transactions in which parents and patients are working toward the solution of a salient family problem. ICD from this family problem-solving task was compared to more traditional measures of CD from parental TAT protocols in a sample of 59 parents of 37 recent-onset schizophrenic patients. Results indicated that CD could be reliably measured in an interactive setting not initiated around a projective test stimulus, and provided evidence for the construct validity of ICD.

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Parental Transactional Style Deviance as a Possible Indicator of Risk for Schizophrenia

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Patterns of Transactional Style Deviance in the TAT's of Parents of Schizophrenics

Lack of Acknowledgment in the Family Rorschachs of Families With a Child at Risk for Schizophrenia

Can Communication Deviance Be Measured in a Family Problem‐Solving Interaction?

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