It was predicted that college students who were high on physical anhedonia and perceptual aberration would have poor social competence. The prediction followed from clinical reports that these characteristics are found in psychosisprone individuals, a group also described as having poor social competence. Anhedonia and perceptual aberration were measured by the true-false scales of Chapman, Chapman, and Raulin, and social competence was measured by the Goldsmith and McFall Interpersonal Behavior Role-Playing Test. The anhedonic subjects were less socially skilled than the control subjects (p < .05), but the difference fell short of significance for the perceptual aberration subjects.
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