Manual of Instructions for Using the Gottschalk-Gleser Content Analysis Scales

Anxiety, Hostility, and Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization

Gottschalk A. Louis, Carolyn N. Winget, Goldine C. Gleser

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520318809
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520318816
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 provides the definitive guide to a landmark methodology in psychological assessment. This manual lays out in detail the step-by-step coding and scoring procedures that underpin the Gottschalk-Gleser content analysis system, a method for quantifying affective states from verbal behavior. Integrating insights from linguistics, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, the book explains the theoretical rationale for the anxiety, hostility, and social alienation-personal disorganization ("schizophrenic") scales, while offering extensive examples, coding rules, and sample tabulations to ensure consistency and reliability across researchers. Designed as both a training resource and reference, the manual provides 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 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates 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 dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS 1
• CHAPTER I Relevance of Content Analysis to Other Sciences
• CHAPTER II The Preparation of Different Kinds of Verbal Communication for Coding
• VERBAL SAMPLES OBTAINED BY THE “STANDARD” PROCEDURE Obtaining verbal samples
• Preparing verbal samples for coding
• Word counts and correction factors
• VERBAL BEHAVIOR OBTAINED FROM PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC AND OTHER INTERVIEWS
• DREAMS
• PROJECTIVE TEST MATERIALS
• OTHER MATERIALS
• CHAPTER III Training Technicians for Coding and Scoring Content
• USEFUL LEARNING TECHNIQUES
• WORD COUNT AND RELIABILITY OF SCORES
• CHAPTER IV Tabulation and Computation of Final Scores AFFECT SCALES
• THE SOCIAL ALIENATION-PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION SCALE
• CHAPTER V General Rules for All Content Analysis Scales THE CODING UNIT
• THE CONTEXTUAL UNIT
• THE SUMMARIZING UNIT
• CODING PRONOUNS AS REFERENTS
• NUMBER OF SCORES PER CLAUSE
• GRAMMATICAL TENSE OF CLAUSES
• SCORING OF DREAMS, WISHES, AND OTHER FANTASY MATERIAL
• MINIMIZING INFERENCES
• CODING OF GENERALIZED OTHERS
• CHAPTER VI The Anxiety Scale INTRODUCTION
• Anxiety ScaleI
• RULES FOR THE USE OF THE ANXIETY SCALEII
• Examples:
• Examples:
• Examples:
• Death Anxiety (1)
• Mutilation Anxiety (2)
• Separation Anxiety (3)
• Guilt Anxiety (4)
• Shame Anxiety (5)
• Diffuse or Nonspecific Anxiety (6)
• Verbal Sample H# 1 Coded for Anxiety
• CHAPTER VII The Hostility Directed Outward Scale INTRODUCTION
• RULES FOR HOSTILITY DIRECTED OUTWARD CODING
• EXAMPLES OF HOSTILITY OUTWARD Overt Hostility Outward (1)
• Covert Hostility Outward (11)
• TABULATION OF VERBAL SAMPLE # 1 CODED FOR HOSTILITY DIRECTED OUTJFARD
• Verbal Sample # 2 Coded for Hostility Directed Outward
• Verbal Sample H 3 Coded for Hostility Directed Outward
• Verbal Sample # 4 Coded for Hostility Directed Outward
• Verbal Sample # 5 Coded for Hostility Directed Outward
• Verbal Sample # 6 Coded for Hostility Directed Outward
• CHAPTER VIII The Hostility Directed Inward Scale INTRODUCTION
• RULES FOR CODING ACCORDING TO THE HOSTILITY INWARD SCALE
• EXAMPLES OF HOSTILITY DIRECTED INWARD (I)
• TABULATION OF VERBAL SAMPLE # 1 CODED FOR HOSTILITY DIRECTED INWARD
• Verbal Sample H 2 Coded for Hostility Directed Inward
• Verbal Sample H 3 Coded for Hostility Directed Inward
• Verbal Sample # 6 Coded for Hostility Directed Inward
• CHAPTER IX The Ambivalent Hostility Scale INTRODUCTION
• RULES FOR AMBIVALENT HOSTILITY CODING
• EXAMPLES OF AMBIVALENTLY DIRECTED HOSTILITY (II)
• TABULATION OF VERBAL SAMPLE # I CODED FOR AMBIVALENTLY DIRECTED HOSTILITY
• Verbal Sample H 2 Coded for Ambivalently Directed Hostility
• TABULATION OF VERBAL SAMPLE # 2 CODED FOR AMBIVALENTLY DIRECTED HOSTILITY
• Verbal Sample # 3 Coded for Ambivalently Directed Hostility
• TABULATION OF VERBAL SAMPLE # 3 CODED FOR AMBIVALENTLY DIRECTED HOSTILITY
• Verbal Sample # 4 Coded for Ambivalently Directed Hostility
• TABULATION OF VERBAL SAMPLE # 4 CODED FOR AMBIVALENTLY DIRECTED HOSTILITY
• Verbal Sample # 5 Coded for Ambivalently Directed Hostility
• CHAPTER X The Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization (Schizophrenic) Scale INTRODUCTION
• RULES FOR SCORING CATEGORIES7
• EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL ALIENATION-PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION Interpersonal References (I)
• Intrapersonal References (11)
• References to Disorganization and Repetition (III)
• Verbal Sample # 1 Coded for Schizophrenia
• Verbal Sample # 2 Coded for Schizophrenia
• Verbal Sample H 3 Coded for Schizophrenia
• Verbal Sample H 4 Coded for Schizophrenia
• Verbal Sample # 5 Coded for Schizophrenia
• Verbal Sample # 6 Coded for Schizophrenia
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX OF AUTHORS
• INDEX OF SUBJECTS