The Level of Dogmatism in Schizophrenia. A Comparative Analysis of Utterance Texts with the Use of the Suitbert Ertel Dogmatism Quotient

• Authors: Monika Obrębska , Sandra Nowak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper describes the results of comparative research on the level of dogmatism in the utterance texts of patients diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia (N=130) and healthy individuals (N=130). The analysis was conducted with the use of the Suitbert Ertel Dogmatism Quotient. The results indicate significant differences between these two groups.

Keywords

EN

paranoid schizophrenia; dogmatism; quantitative linguistic analysis

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-62

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-05-16

Contributors

author

Monika Obrębska

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

author

Sandra Nowak

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10057-011-0003-3