Performance of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in the Offspring of Schizophrenic Patients.
- Author:
Chul Kwon KIM
1
;
Jeong Hee JANG
;
Woo Seuk JANG
;
Jin Seok CHO
;
Myung Jung KIM
;
Won Tan BYUN
Author Information
1. YangSan Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yangsan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Wisconsin card sorting test;
Vulnerability marker;
Schizophrenia
- MeSH:
Alcoholics;
Concept Formation;
Humans;
Learning;
Schizophrenia;
Thinking;
Wisconsin*
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
1998;37(5):792-800
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
In order to evaluate whether Wisconsin Card Sorting Test(WCST) could be used to detect the vulnerability markers of schizophrenia, three groups such as offsprings of schizophrenic patients(n=28), offsprings of alcoholic patients(n=18), and offsprings of psychiatrically normal persons(n=41) were examined for their concept formation and abstract thinking by means of WCST.The results were as follows; 1) No significant differences were noted in all variables of the WCST such as number of totol administered trials, total correct response %,total error response $,perseverative response %,perseverative error response %,nonperseverative error response %,conceptual level response %,number of completed category,number of trials to complete 1st category,number of failure to maintain a set,and learning to learn among three groups. 2) There was no difference in the number of cases with extreme low WCST total correct % of lower 10% of the normal controls among three groups. These results suggest that Wcst could be an ineffective instrument for using to detect the vulnerability markers of schizophrenia.
