Some semantic patterns of cardiac patients
Palát, M.; Stukovský, R.; Sedláková, A.
Activitas Nervosa Superior Suppl 3(Part 1): 173-177
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-7604 PMID: 7183065 Document Number: 193801
The authors investigate the semantic patterns of patients who after a myocardial infarction are taking part in a long-term rehabilitation program. By means of a specially constructed semantic differential they measure and factor-analyze the attitudes of 50 male patients towards 15 clinico-medical concepts. Data from 60 healthy female controls yielded almost identical factor loadings for the stimulus terms, describing obviously the same perceptual structure having a strong temporal component. The spatial clustering of the concept reveals minor particularities which are specific for the view of the postinfarctional patients.