Effects of Changes in Instructions and Pictorial Variations on Story-telling Performance of Paranoid Schizophrenics

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of variations in instructions and pictorial stimuli on the story-telling performance of paranoid schizophrenic patients to TAT-like cards dealing with the dimensions of sex and hostility. Twelve TAT-like pictures, six depicting sexual scenes and six representing hostile content were administered to 68 paranoid schizophrenics. One group of 34 Ss was instructed to tell stories in the first-person, while a different group of 34 Ss told stories in the third-person. Two criterion measures were examined; initial reaction time and total number of words. Initial reaction time was significantly slower under first-person instructions, but only for the hostile pictures. Initial reaction time was shortest for the moderately sexual pictures and verbal output was greatest for the least sexual pictures. For the hostile pictures, neither the main effect of instructions nor the degree of hostility significantly affected any of the criterion measures.

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