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The Personal Health Survey.

F C Thorne

    Journal of Clinical Psychology
    |April 1, 1978
    PubMed
    Summary

    The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item psychophysiological symptom inventory. Factor analysis identified five key factors, aiding in clinical group differentiation and scale validation.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychometrics
    • Clinical Psychology
    • Psychophysiology

    Background:

    • The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item inventory.
    • It comprises 12 empirically constructed scales assessing symptomatology.
    • These scales relate to principal psychophysiological systems.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To compare base rates of item responding across five clinical groups.
    • To factor analyze the PHS results to identify underlying factors.
    • To compare the item composition of extracted factors across the general population and clinical subgroups.

    Main Methods:

    • Administered the PHS to 730 participants across five clinical groups.
    • Compared item response base rates (True/False) between groups.
    • Performed principal component factor analysis with Varimax rotation.

    Main Results:

    • Identified five orthogonal main factors from the overall population.
    • Extracted and compared these five factors within each of the five clinical subgroups.
    • Differences in item composition of factors across groups were analyzed.

    Conclusions:

    • The factor analysis provides a robust structure for the PHS.
    • The identified factors aid in understanding psychophysiological symptomatology in clinical contexts.
    • The study discusses administration, scoring, interpretation, and validation of the PHS scales.

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