Social factors ion schizophrenic, alcoholic, executive and prison populations

Investigated factorial structure of social status in hospitalized schizophrenics, alcoholics, executives and prison populations totaling 965 Ss. Five major factors were derived from the data obtained by administration of a 200-item Social Status Study instrument: Factor I--Social Class Role; Factor II--Conservative Citizen Role; Factor II--Worker Status Role; Factor IV--Political Citizen Role, and Factor V--Political-Social Mobility. Description of the levels of integration along the personal-social dimension represented by the four clinical groups was proposed.