The Personal Health Survey.

The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item inventory that consists of 12 scales of empirically constructed items that relate to symptomatology from the principal psychophysiological supporting systems. The PHS was administered to 730 Ss in five clinical groups. Base rates of responding T or F to each item were compared across the five diagnostic groups. The test results were factor analyzed with a principal component method combined with Varimax rotation. The factors were orthogonal. Five main factors were extracted from the overall population and from each of the five subgroups and compared as to item composition. Administration, scoring, interpretation and validation of the empirical and factored scales are discussed.