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[Using content analysis in cross-cultural psychosomatic research].

Hendrik Berth1, Friedrich Balck, Elmar Brähler

  • 1Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie. berth@inhaltsanalyse.de

Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie
|December 13, 2005
PubMed
Summary

The Gottschalk-Gleser analysis, a tool for measuring anxious and aggressive affects, shows limited comparability between its English (PCAD 2000) and German (DAW) software versions for cross-cultural psychosomatic research.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Content Analysis

Context:

  • The Gottschalk-Gleser analysis is a widely used content-analytical technique in psychosomatic research for measuring anxious and aggressive affects.
  • Computer software, such as Psychiatric Content Analysis and Diagnosis (PCAD 2000) for English and Dresdner Angstwörterbuch (DAW) for German, has been developed to streamline the time-consuming application and analysis of this technique.
  • The availability of multilingual versions facilitates cross-cultural research, but their comparability needs to be established.

Purpose:

  • This study aimed to evaluate the comparability of the anxiety scales between the English (PCAD 2000) and German (DAW) versions of the Gottschalk-Gleser analysis.
  • The objective was to determine if these automated tools yield equivalent results for anxiety measurement in cross-cultural psychosomatic studies.

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Summary:

  • 96 German abstracts from 2003-2004 were analyzed using both PCAD 2000 and DAW, totaling over 31,000 words.
  • Correlations between the Gottschalk-Gleser anxiety scales from both programs ranged from 0.21 to 0.59 (p < 0.05), with shame anxiety being an exception.
  • Significant differences were found in the mean scores calculated by PCAD and DAW across all scales.

Impact:

  • The findings indicate that the PCAD 2000 and DAW software versions demonstrate limited utility for direct cross-cultural comparisons in psychosomatic research due to significant score discrepancies.
  • Researchers should exercise caution when interpreting results from these automated content analysis tools across different languages.
  • Further development or validation studies may be necessary to enhance the cross-cultural applicability of automated Gottschalk-Gleser analysis tools.