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1, as generally the scores for schizophrenia were stable in other areas, indicating a similar
percentage of space used. The groups showed more 'bunched' positioning in study 2 at
around 25-30% space, this had the effect of isolating the controls at around 10-20% space
in study 2.
There were slight differences in four variables which produced distinctions from the
results of study 2: there were trends but no significant differences for study 1.
Although controls and depressives used about the same amount of red in both
studies, substance abusers and particularly schizophrenics used much more red in study
1. Some schizophrenics and some substance abusers for study 1 also had personality
disorder, which tends to scatter the results (from study 2). Study 2 isolated the controls
from substance abusers and put the schizophrenics level with depressed, who had not
fluctuated and were a more discrete group.
Apart from substance abusers whose score reduced considerably in study 2, there
were only minimal differences in green between study 1 and 2, but it was enough to
isolate the controls, who scored slightly more than most of the patients.
Substance abusers scored much more black in study 2, which isolated this group
as significantly higher scoring than all other groups. This could be an effect of better
grouping. Depressives showed slightly higher scores for black in study 1 but some
secondary diagnoses were alcohol related; the schizophrenic group in study 1 included
psychosis due to drug and alcohol use. In study 2, the majority of the substance abuse
was for alcohol and the schizophrenic group did not include psychosis: if drug use pushes
up the black score, it would explain both higher scores. The drug abuse group scored
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