Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Content Analysis: Overview of a Measurement Method

      • Louis A. Gottschalk, Fernando Lolas, Linda L. Viney

      Pages 3-7

3. Theoretical Issues and Modern Historical Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Behavioral Text and Psychological Context: On Pragmatic Verbal Behavior Analysis

      • Fernando Lolas

      Pages 11-28

   3. Research Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales in English Since 1969

      • Louis A. Gottschalk

      Pages 29-46

   4. Studies Proving the Validity of the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales in German-Speaking Countries

      • Uwe Koch

      Pages 47-53

   5. Assessment of Psychological States Through Content Analysis of Verbal Communications

      • Linda L. Viney

      Pages 55-84

4. Recent Procedural and Technical Contributions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. An Interpersonal Measure of Hostility Based on Speech Context

      • Thomas Gift, Robert Cole, Lyman Wynne

      Pages 87-93

   3. Microcomputers as Aids to Avoid Error in Gottschalk-Gleser Rating

      • Gerhard Deffner

      Pages 95-103

   4. A Depression Scale Applicable to Verbal Samples

      • Louis A. Gottschalk, Julia Hoigaard

      Pages 105-122

   5. Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior in Psychotherapy Research: A Comparison Between Two Methods

      • Fernando Lolas, Erhard Mergenthaler, Michael von Rad

      Pages 123-130

5. Some Applications of Verbal Behavior Analysis to the Clinical Sciences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Use of the Gottschalk-Gleser Verbal Content Analysis Scales with Medically Ill Patients

      • Allen H. Lebovits, Jimmie C. Holland

      Pages 133-148

   3. Affective Content of Speech and Treatment Outcome in Bruxism

      • Susana Aronsohn, Fernando Lolas, Arturo Manns, Rodolfo Miralles

      Pages 149-156

   4. Psychological States in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

      • Linda L. Viney, Mary T. Westbrook

      Pages 157-169

   5. Emotional Impact of Mastectomy

      • Louis A. Gottschalk, Julia Hoigaard

      Pages 171-187

   6. Some Sources of Alienation for Drug Addicts

      • Linda L. Viney, Mary T. Westbrook, Carol Preston

      Pages 189-196

   7. Content Analysis of Speech of Schizophrenic and Control Adoptees and Their Relatives: Preliminary Results

      • Dennis K. Kinney, Bjørn Jacobsen, Birgitte Bechgaard, Lennart Jansson, Britta Faber, Eva Kasell et al.

      Pages 197-205

The psychological states of patients with diabetes mellitus were compared with those of patients suffering from other chronic diseases and people with no diagnosed chronic diseases. These states were assessed by applying content analysis scales to transcripts of their descriptions of their current experiences. Analyses of the diabetics' scale scores re­ vealed a pattern characterized by much anxiety, depression, anger expressed both direct­ ly and indirectly, together with feelings of helplessness. The sources of anxiety which proved to be of most importance to them were fears of death and bodily mutilation, as weIl as guilt and shame. They experienced little sense of sharing with most people around them, although they showed considerable enjoyment of dose relationships with family and friends. This pattern of psychological states did not vary with the sex of the patients or whether they were interviewed in a hospital or at horne nor with recency of onset or multiplicity of health problems. It was similar to the pattern of patients with other chronic diseases but differed significantly from that of the healthy group. Acknowledgment The authors wish to acknowledge the contribution ofCarol Preston to the collection and analysis of these data which were made available, inpart, by patients of the Wollongong Hospital and members of the Illawarra Branch of the Diabetic Association of N ew South Wales. References 1. Strong JA, Baird JD (1971) Diseases ofthe endocrine system. In: Davidson S, McLeod J (eds) The principles and practice of medicine.

• Depression
• Emotion
• anxiety
• assessment
• diabetes
• diagnosis
• feeling
• psychiatry

• Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Division, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA

  Louis A. Gottschalk

• Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago 7, Chile

  Fernando Lolas

• Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

  Linda Louise Viney

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