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Characterization of psychotic experiences in adolescence using the specific psychotic experiences questionnaire : findings from a study of 5000 16-year-old twins
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Ronald, Angelica, Sieradzka, Dominika, Cardno, Alastair G., Haworth, Claire M. A., McGuire, Philip and Freeman, Daniel (2014) Characterization of psychotic experiences in adolescence using the specific psychotic experiences questionnaire : findings from a study of 5000 16-year-old twins. Schizophrenia Bulletin, Volume 40 (Number 4). pp. 868-877. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbt106 ISSN 0586-7614.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbt106
Abstract
We aimed to characterize multiple psychotic experiences, each assessed on a spectrum of severity (ie, quantitatively), in a general population sample of adolescents. Over five thousand 16-year-old twins and their parents completed the newly devised Specific Psychotic Experiences Questionnaire (SPEQ); a subsample repeated it approximately 9 months later. SPEQ was investigated in terms of factor structure, intersubscale correlations, frequency of endorsement and reported distress, reliability and validity, associations with traits of anxiety, depression and personality, and sex differences. Principal component analysis revealed a 6-component solution: paranoia, hallucinations, cognitive disorganization, grandiosity, anhedonia, and parent-rated negative symptoms. These components formed the basis of 6 subscales. Correlations between different experiences were low to moderate. All SPEQ subscales, except Grandiosity, correlated significantly with traits of anxiety, depression, and neuroticism. Scales showed good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity. Girls endorsed more paranoia, hallucinations, and cognitive disorganization; boys reported more grandiosity and anhedonia and had more parent-rated negative symptoms. As in adults at high risk for psychosis and with psychotic disorders, psychotic experiences in adolescents are characterized by multiple components. The study of psychotic experiences as distinct dimensional quantitative traits is likely to prove an important strategy for future research, and the SPEQ is a self- and parent-report questionnaire battery that embodies this approach.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Psychoses in children | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Schizophrenia Bulletin | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0586-7614 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 40 | ||||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 868-877 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/schbul/sbt106 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 December 2015 | ||||||
Funder: | Medical Research Council (Great Britain) (MRC), Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), British Academy (BA) | ||||||
Grant number: | G1100559 (MRC), G0901245 (MRC), G0500079 (MRC), G0902308 (MRC) |
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