Replication of the Associations of Positive, Negative, and Disorganized Schizotypy With Interview-Assessed Symptoms and Impairment: Convergence With Previous Studies

Laura M. Hernández, Kathryn C. Kemp, Neus Barrantes-Vidal, Thomas R. Kwapil

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Abstract

Schizophrenia-spectrum psychopathology appears best understood as being expressed across a continuum of clinical and subclinical symptoms and impairment referred to as schizotypy. This brief report describes a comprehensive replication study examining the associations of positive, negative, and disorganized schizotypy with interview ratings of impairment, psychopathology, and personality pathology in a sample of 161 young adults. Consistent with past studies, positive, negative, and disorganized schizotypy had distinct and hypothesized associations with symptoms and impairment. Positive schizotypy was associated with prodromal symptoms and schizotypal, paranoid, and borderline personality traits. Negative schizotypy was associated with impaired functioning, negative symptoms, and schizoid, schizotypal, and paranoid traits, as well as any broad personality disorder diagnosis; it was also associated with never having dated. Disorganized schizotypy was associated with impaired functioning, disorganized schizotypic experiences, attentional deficits, and schizotypal, paranoid, borderline, and avoidant personality traits, as well as depression.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalPersonality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2023

Keywords

  • Interview
  • Multidimensional
  • Psychosis
  • Replication
  • Schizophrenia-spectrum
  • Schizotypy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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