E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factor structure of the K-WAIS in a sample of patients with schizophrenia. Subjects were 154 patients with schizophrenia(male; 100, female; 54) who admitted department of neuropsychiatry in Wonkwang university hospital(ages 16 to 54). General factor in a sample of patients with schizophrenia was abstracted from the K-WAIS factor analysis. Variance of general factor was 58.7%. All subscales of K-WAIS showed above .70 loadings on general factor. Specially, information, vocabulary and similarity of K-WAIS showed above .83 loadings of general factor. Finally significances, limitions and suggestions of this study were also discussed.