Table 2.
Description of the global indices and primary dimensions of SCL-90-R
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Global indices | |
| Caseness/positive diagnosis | One or more criteria for psychiatric diagnosis |
| Global severity index (GSI) | Overall indicator of psychopathology |
| Primary dimensions | |
| Obsessive-compulsive (O-C) | Thoughts, impulses, and actions that are unwanted but are unremitting or irresistible to the individual |
| Interpersonal sensitivity (INT) | Feelings of personal inadequacy and inferiority |
| Depression (DEP) | Feelings reflective of the manifestations of clinical depression |
| Paranoid ideation (PAR) | Symptoms indicative of psychotic illness, including suspiciousness, grandiosity, fear, and hostility |
| Psychoticism (PSY) | Feelings of interpersonal alienation, symptoms of schizophrenia, withdrawn schizoid features |
| Anxiety (ANX) | Symptoms and signs associated with high levels of manifest anxiety (trembling, panic attacks, feelings of terror) |
| Somatization (SOM) | Distress arising from perceptions of bodily dysfunction |
| Hostility (HOS) | Thoughts, feelings, actions typical of anger |
| Phobic anxiety (PH) | Fear response to a stimulus that is disproportionate to the stimulus; avoidance or escape behavior |