TY - JOUR
T1 - Distress and metacognition in psychosis prone individuals
T2 - comparing high schizotypy to the at-risk mental state
AU - Barkus, Emma
AU - Stirling, John
AU - French, Paul
AU - Morrison, Anthony
AU - Bentall, Richard
AU - Lewis, Shôn
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Both schizotypy and at-risk mental states (ARMS: prodromal states) define individuals at risk for psychotic symptoms. However, the relationship between the 2 is unclear. ARMS individuals are, by definition, help-seeking and therefore at greater risk. We tested whether high schizotypes and ARMS exist along the same continuum by examining maladaptive metacognitions and distress. About 95 healthy volunteers (39% male; mean age, 22.8 years) completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, the Launay-Slade Hallucinations Scale, Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ), and the General Health Questionnaire, and 58 help seeking individuals with ARMS status (41% male; mean age, 22.2 years) completed the Metacognitions Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire. With increasing expression of schizotypy and hallucinatory proneness healthy volunteers became difficult to differentiate from ARMS patients and showed similarities in distress and metacognitive abnormalities. Results suggest healthy volunteers who express both schizotypal trait and proneness to hallucinations have cognitive processes in common with ARMS patients.
AB - Both schizotypy and at-risk mental states (ARMS: prodromal states) define individuals at risk for psychotic symptoms. However, the relationship between the 2 is unclear. ARMS individuals are, by definition, help-seeking and therefore at greater risk. We tested whether high schizotypes and ARMS exist along the same continuum by examining maladaptive metacognitions and distress. About 95 healthy volunteers (39% male; mean age, 22.8 years) completed the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, the Launay-Slade Hallucinations Scale, Metacognitions Questionnaire (MCQ), and the General Health Questionnaire, and 58 help seeking individuals with ARMS status (41% male; mean age, 22.2 years) completed the Metacognitions Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire. With increasing expression of schizotypy and hallucinatory proneness healthy volunteers became difficult to differentiate from ARMS patients and showed similarities in distress and metacognitive abnormalities. Results suggest healthy volunteers who express both schizotypal trait and proneness to hallucinations have cognitive processes in common with ARMS patients.
KW - Cognition Disorders/diagnosis
KW - Depressive Disorder/diagnosis
KW - Female
KW - Hallucinations/diagnosis
KW - Health Status
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Neuropsychological Tests
KW - Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data
KW - Prevalence
KW - Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Schizotypal Personality Disorder/diagnosis
KW - Self Concept
KW - Severity of Illness Index
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181cc418a
DO - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181cc418a
M3 - Article
C2 - 20145483
VL - 198
SP - 99
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
SN - 0022-3018
IS - 2
ER -