Ali Mohammadzadeh; Faramarz Sohrabi
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In recent years an increasing interest in the hallucinatory experiences and its phenomenology is taken into consideration. The aim of this study was the prediction of predisposition to hallucinations based on positive and negative schizotypy. The current study was conducted in descriptive research context. ...
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In recent years an increasing interest in the hallucinatory experiences and its phenomenology is taken into consideration. The aim of this study was the prediction of predisposition to hallucinations based on positive and negative schizotypy. The current study was conducted in descriptive research context. A group of 312 normal participants (88 male (224 female) from university students took part in this research. Participants answered to Launay-Slade Hallucinations (LSHS), and Chapmans psychosis proneness Scales. Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple regression analysis. All of the schizotypy subscales including magical ideation, perceptual aberration physical and social anhedonia, showed correlation with predisposition to hallucinations., but results indicated that magical ideation and perceptual aberration as positive schizotypy was suitable predictor towards predisposition to hallucinations. Based on results the relationships of predisposition to hallucinations and positive schizotypy were discussed in light of psychosis-proneness continuum.
ali mohammadzadeh; vahid khosravani; nadereh mahdavi heris
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Background and objective: Evidence has suggested that risk for schizophrenia is likely to occur in non-psychotic first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia. On the other hand, schizotypal personality disorder is genetically related to schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to compare schizotypal ...
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Background and objective: Evidence has suggested that risk for schizophrenia is likely to occur in non-psychotic first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia. On the other hand, schizotypal personality disorder is genetically related to schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to compare schizotypal traits (i.e., positive schizotypy, negative schizotypy, cognitive disorganization, and impulsive nonconformity) among patients with schizophrenia and their non-psychotic first-degree relatives as well as normal controls. Methods: Thirty-four patients with schizophrenia and 50 of their non-psychotic first-degree relatives as well as 34 normal controls were included in this study. The data were collected by the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences, short version (sO-LIFE). Results: The results showed that the three groups were significantly different from each other regarding mean scores of schizotypal traits. Patients with schizophrenia and their non-psychotic first-degree relatives exceeded normal controls on schizotypal traits. Patients with schizophrenia had higher scores on total schizotypal traits, positive schizotypy, cognitive disorganization, and impulsive nonconformity than their non-psychotic first-degree relatives. Conclusion: The findings revealed that hereditary factors had an important role in the development of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and it is explainable by the stress-vulnerability model.
