Abstract
Included in the many researches contrasting psychological processes of normally functioning and mentally disturbed persons are several which have been designed to study intraindividual variability. Several investigators of this problem—Gatewood 2 ; Hunt 4 ; Shakow and Huston 7 ; Huston, Shakow, and Riggs, 5 and Siegel 8 —are of the general opinion that increased intraindividual variability in psychomotor and mental tests is positively related to emotional disturbance. Stability in attitudes of young schizophrenic patients has been investigated by David and Rabinowitz, 1 who found these subjects to be less consistent than student nurses in expressing a preference. In their study, results were based on a test-retest situation. The present paper has the dual purpose of reporting further evidence for this finding, and of describing a procedure utilizing Paired Comparisons which provides an inconsistency score in a single testing session. In addition to the practical advantage of avoiding the need of seeing each
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