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R H Harrison

Publications and source records attributed to R H Harrison.

At least 55 records · Page 3Linked to original sources
PubMed1981

A Closeness to Divorce Scale for wives of alcoholics.

A 15-item Guttman scale, Closeness to Divorce, was developed to describe and quantify how close an alcoholic's wife is to divorce at a given point in time. A detailed precoded interview schedule guided extensive interviews with 60 women, varying in marital status, who were current or former wives of men treated of alcoholism in Veterans Administration Hospitals. The interview contained 24 items on various aspects of marital stability gathered from the literature and from pilot interviews. These items were factor analysed and 15 items, loading 0.40 or better on the first principal component, were chosen for further analysis. A Guttman scale computer program was used to arrange the 15 items to form a Closeness to Divorce Scale, i.e. a unidimensional, cumulative scale with divorce at the endpoint and sequential psychological, interpersonal, geographic and legal steps toward divorce as the other items. Preliminary evidence of construct validity, potential clinical and research uses for scale, its limitations, and suggestions for future studies are described.

Alcoholism↗
PubMed1975

Differences between EMR and nonretarded children in fluency and quality of verbal associations.

An association task, in which a subject was asked to give up to 25 associations to each of 10 verbal stimuli, was administered to 32 EMR and 32 nonretarded subjects, along with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. The associations were scored for quantity and speed of response; they were also categorized by a modification of Flavell's system for response quality. As expected, the two groups differed in vocabularly size. When vocabularly size was controlled, relatively few differences between EMR and nonretarded subjects remained: EMR subjects were slower than nonretarded subjects in their first and continuing responses to the association stimuli, used fewer logical associations, and used fewer responses with vocational connotations. In light of the fact that after adjustment for vocabulary differences, the two groups differed on only 6 of the 24 measures examined, the associative networks of the two groups were surprisingly comparable. The remaining differences demonstrated a specific deficit in logical connections and in speed of access to the associative net.

Adolescent↗