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Affective content of speech has been used as an aid in the psychological evaluation of patients undergoing psychopharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatment [4, 12]. One assessment procedure, the Gottschalk-Gleser method [5], has proved valuable in studying both transient changes in mood and enduring psychological characteristics. This eclectic method relies on the grammatical clause as a coding unit and can be applied by technicians working on written materials for scoring up to 16 psychological “dimensions.” Most of the scales developed so far (particularly those measuring anxiety and hostility) have been externally validated and show some degree of stability over time and across situations [8].
This study was performed while the senior author was on a leave of absence from the faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, aided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Lolas, F., Kordy, H., von Rad, M. (1986). Affective Content of Speech as a Predictor of Psychotherapy Outcome. In: Gottschalk, L.A., Lolas, F., Viney, L.L. (eds) Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71085-8_18
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