Impact of Adverse Life Events on Individuals With Low and High Schizotypy in a Nonpatient Sample

Autor(en)

Krisztina Kocsis-Bogár, Monika Miklosi, Dora Perczel-Forintos

Abstrakt

Abstract: The aims of this study were to gain a better understanding of adverse
life events connected with the development of schizotypal personality
traits and, also, to examine whether subclinical schizotypy has a relationship
with vulnerability to traumatic intrusions and avoidance. In a cross-sectional
design, 198 undergraduate students completed the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory
of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE), the Impact of Event Scale (IES), and
Paykel’s Life Events Scale, together with other relevant scales. The number
of adverse life events was significantly related to overall schizotypy measured
by O-LIFE scores and positive schizotypy measured by the Unusual Experiences
(UnEx) subscale. The subjective severity of life events was significantly
related to Cognitive Disorganization (CogDis). Measures of positive schizotypy
(UnEx and CogDis) were significantly related to the scores on the IES and on
the intrusion and avoidance subscales, too. Adverse life events are associated
with schizotypal personality traits, which contribute to a tendency for traumatic
intrusions, even in a nonpatient sample.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Semmelweis University

Journal

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Band

201

Seiten

208-215

Anzahl der Seiten

8

ISSN

0022-3018

Publikationsdatum

2013

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501010 Klinische Psychologie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/6b689cf3-6c53-4788-91aa-f38b5a4cf654