Cognitive Factor Structure and Invariance in People With Schizophrenia, Their Unaffected Siblings, and Controls
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Cognitive factor structure and invariance in people with schizophrenia, their unaffected siblings, and controls.
INTRODUCTION Separable, but positively correlated, factors emerge from analyses of cognitive test data in schizophrenia and control samples (eg, verbal memory and processing speed) and these factors guide data reduction. Additionally, data support a hierarchical model of cognitive performance, in which these correlations reflect the influence of a higher-order factor, referred to as "g." We tes...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0586-7614,1745-1701
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbq018