Citation

Sohlberg SC. Schizophr. Bull. 1985; 11(1): 48-60.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3983580

Abstract

The present article reports findings on intelligence and personality functioning during the school period and at adolescence in a sample of kibbutz and urban Israeli children at risk for schizophrenia, as measured by a standard psychological test battery. On the first round of testing it was found that the index subjects, when compared with their controls, showed a significantly lower level in arithmetic proficiency, perceptual-motor functioning, and several specific verbal and thought patterns. These findings suggest an overall pattern of attentional dysfunctioning and a basic distortion in cognitive integration. Followup data did not show intergroup differences in perceptual-motor functioning, but did indicate a consistent picture of a significantly lower overall intelligence level and several indices of clear personality problems. No consistent sex or kibbutz-city differences were found.

FINDINGS are interpreted in the framework of a developmental model of vulnerability in subjects at risk for schizophrenia.

Language: en