Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales: Anxiety, Hostility, and Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization

The Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales provides a comprehensive guide to a landmark methodology in psychological assessment, offering step-by-step coding and scoring procedures for quantifying affective states from verbal behavior. It integrates insights from linguistics, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, explaining the theoretical rationale for the anxiety, hostility, and social alienation-personal disorganization scales. The manual serves as a training resource and reference, providing clear guidelines for preparing verbal samples, training technicians, and ensuring interrater reliability. It situates content analysis within broader scientific concerns and illustrates its application to clinical interviews, dreams, projective tests, and spontaneous speech. By combining methodological rigor with practical illustrations, the volume enables researchers and clinicians to transform language into quantitative data about affect and psychopathology, securing its lasting place in the toolkit of psychological research and diagnostic evaluation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 182 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2022
Publisher: University of California Press

Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales: Anxiety, Hostility, and Social Alienation–Personal Disorganization by Louis A. Gottschalk, Carolyn N. Winget, and Goldine C. Gleser is a comprehensive guide to a renowned psychological assessment methodology. This manual thoroughly outlines the step-by-step coding and scoring procedures that form the foundation of the Gottschalk-Gleser content analysis system, a method for quantifying affective states from verbal behavior. By integrating insights from linguistics, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, the book elucidates the theoretical foundations of the anxiety, hostility, and social alienation–personal disorganization ("schizophrenic") scales, while providing extensive examples, coding rules, and sample tabulations to ensure consistency and reliability among researchers. Designed as both a training resource and reference, the manual offers clear guidelines for preparing verbal samples, training technicians, and ensuring interrater reliability. Beyond technical instruction, it situates content analysis within broader scientific concerns, linking linguistic pragmatics with measurable psychological states, and illustrates its application to clinical interviews, dreams, projective tests, and spontaneous speech. By combining methodological rigor with practical illustrations, the volume empowers researchers and clinicians to transform language into quantitative data about affect and psychopathology, securing its lasting place in the toolkit of psychological research and diagnostic evaluation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates the University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist of over 1,000 titles, UC Press is proud to publish this and other important works that have stood the test of time.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520362789