“…Participants with higher levels of baseline NS were much more likely to be male, in accordance with previous literature in both crosssectional (Drake et al, 2016;Thorup et al, 2007) and follow-up FEP studies (Thorup et al, 2014). Although earlier investigations of gender-specific patterns of negative psychopathology have been contradictory (Ochoa, Usall, Cobo, Labad, & Kulkarni, 2012), most early psychosis studies are consistent with our findings (Köhler et al, 2009;Køster, Lajer, Lindhardt, & Rosenbaum, 2008;Thorup et al, 2007;Thorup et al, 2014;Willhite et al, 2008), including studies of individuals at risk for psychosis (Rietschel et al, 2017). In our study, severity of baseline NS was related to a younger age at onset of psychosis, which is consistent with most ( Drake et al, 2016;Üçok & Ergül, 2014), but not all (Schultz et al, 1997), previous findings.…”