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A comparison of normal and disturbed adolescent Offer Self-Image Questionnaire responses in an Irish cultural setting
1Adolescent Service, Cluain Mhuire Family Centre, Blackrock, Dublin.
Abstract:
In an effort to gauge the overall usefulness of the Offer Self-Image Questionnaire (OSIQ) as a practical discriminator between clinically disturbed and normal Irish teenagers, the 11 scale scores and the mean of these scores for 845 normal and 115 disturbed adolescents were computed and compared. The results show that the test does, in fact, distinguish disturbed adolescents from normals and, in particular, psychotic from both normal and other disturbed adolescents. We conclude that the test may have considerable potential on an individual clinical basis, provided suitable cultural norms are established.
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