Journal article

The relationship between personality traits and psychotic like experiences in a large non-clinical adolescent sample

S Wiltink, B Nelson, E Velthorst, JTW Wigman, A Lin, G Baksheev, E Cosgrave, M Ross, J Ryan, AR Yung

Personality and Individual Differences | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.030

Abstract

Objective: The relationship between personality and psychosis is well established. It has been suggested that this relationship may be partly accounted for by higher levels of depression in individuals with certain personality traits. We explored whether the link between personality and psychotic symptoms is already apparent in adolescence, and if this association would still hold when depression was controlled for. Method: 654 secondary school students were surveyed via self-report questionnaires measuring the Five-Factor model of personality (NEO-FFI), depression (CES-D) and psychotic-like experiences (CAPE). Results: Positive associations were found between Neuroticism and all CAPE-subsca..

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Keywords

Personality Traits
Community Sample
Clinical Research
Predictors
National Comorbidity Survey
Psychology
Five-Factor Model
Schizophrenia
Associations
5205 Social and Personality Psychology
Mental Health
5202 Biological Psychology
Pediatric Research Initiative
Risk-Factors
52 Psychology
Depression
Disorders
Behavioral and Social Science
Lifetime Prevalence
Social Sciences
Psychology, Social
Serious Mental Illness
Brain Disorders
Neuroticism
Adolescence
Mental Illness
2.3 Psychological, Social and Economic Factors
5201 Applied and Developmental Psychology
Psychotic Like Experiences