Psychometric Properties and Concurrent Validity of the Schizotypal Ambivalence Scale

Kwapil, Thomas Richard; Mann, Monica; Raulin, Michael L.

doi:10.1097/00005053-200205000-00004

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“…For instance, across several types of emotionally evocative stimuli (pictures, words, and sounds) Trémeau et al (2009) found that while participants with and without schizophrenia reported similar stimulus-congruent emotion ratings, schizophrenia participants reported higher stimulus-incongruent emotion to both positive and negative stimuli. These lab findings are supported by self-report studies finding that psychosis may be associated with higher trait ambivalence (Kwapil et al, 2002; Kerns, 2006; Kerns and Becker, 2008). …”

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Daily life evidence of environment-incongruent emotion in schizophrenia

Sanchez

Lavaysse

Starr

et al. 2014

Psychiatry Research

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Researchers have recently hypothesized that negative emotion in positive situations may be one mechanism for understanding emotion dysfunction in schizophrenia. Using ecological momentary assessment, we examined the relationship between emotion experience and environmental context in the daily lives of participants with and without schizophrenia. Participants with (n = 47) and without schizophrenia (n = 41) were provided a cellular telephone and called four times a day for one week. During each call participants rated their emotion experiences, described their current activities, and rated enjoyment from those activities. In line with previous research, participants with schizophrenia reported higher negative emotion overall relative to participants without schizophrenia, but equivalent levels of positive emotion and activity enjoyment. In line with the environment-incongruent negative emotion hypothesis, participants with schizophrenia evidenced a weaker relationship between reported enjoyment of current activities and current negative emotion compared to participants without schizophrenia. In addition, lower neurocognition predicted this weak relationship between negative emotion and context in the schizophrenia group. These findings provide ecologically valid support for environment-incongruent negative emotion in schizophrenia, and suggest that people with schizophrenia with more impaired neurocognition may have more difficulties regulating negative emotion.

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Daily life evidence of environment-incongruent emotion in schizophrenia

Sanchez

Lavaysse

Starr

et al. 2014

Psychiatry Research

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“…In contrast, the rSAmb has not been associated with major depressive disorder (Kwapil et al., 2002; Mann et al, 2008), although rates of major depression or other forms of clinical disorders were low in these nonclinical samples. At the same time, the rSAmb has been strongly associated with decreased emotional clarity (Cicero and Kerns, 2010; Kerns, 2006), which has also been strongly associated with depression (Berenbaum et al, 2012; Salovey et al, 1995).…”

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Self-reported Ambivalence in Schizophrenia and Associations With Negative Mood

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Cicero

Becker

et al. 2014

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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One instrument potentially useful for schizophrenia research is the Revised Schizotypal Ambivalence Scale (rSAmb). However, previous research has not examined the construct validity of this instrument in people with schizophrenia. In the current study, people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (n = 47) and bipolar disorder (BPD; n = 19) completed the rSAmb along with current symptom and other clinical data. As a group, the people with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder reported significantly less ambivalence on the rSAmb than did the people with BPD. In addition, the rSAmb was not significantly related to any schizophrenia symptom (all correlations < 0.15). Instead, the rSAmb was significantly associated with negative mood symptoms in the past week, a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder rather than schizophrenia, and the number of negative terms used in speech. These results suggest that the rSAmb may be associated with negative mood and not with schizophrenia, although systematic examination of larger cohorts is warranted.

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“…The SAS is a 19-item revision of the Intense ambivalence scale, which was designed to identify ambivalence, described by Meehl as characteristic of schizotypy and schizophrenia (Raulin, [10]; Kwapil et al, [25]). Satisfactory internal consistency and reliability in different samples of college students or young adults have been reported (Raulin, [10]; Kwapil et al, [25]). We used the French versions of the CSS and SAS that present satisfactory psychometric properties (Yon et al, [34]).…”

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“…In the second study [23], subjects with disorganized schizotypy significantly differed from control participants in terms of emotional ambivalence measured by the Schizotypal Ambivalence Scale [25]. …”

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Relationship between anticipatory, consummatory anhedonia and disorganization in schizotypy

2014

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BackgroundThe disorganized and negative dimensions of schizotypy are characterized by cognitive disorganization and anhedonia, respectively. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between these two dimensions of schizotypy by taking into account ambivalence and the distinction between consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia.MethodsDimensional analysis and categorical analysis were performed on two different samples (N = 400 and 399) of university students. Self-reported scales were used to measure cognitive disorganization, anticipatory and consummatory anhedonia, and ambivalence. Dimensional analysis using confirmatory factorial analysis examined various models of disorganized and negative schizotypy and categorical analysis compared the scores on anticipatory, consummatory anhedonia and ambivalence scales between various groups of subjects presenting either disorganized schizotypy or negative schizotypy or free of schizotypy.ResultsThe disorganized dimension of schizotypy was characterized by schizotypal ambivalence and anticipatory anhedonia, while the negative dimension of schizotypy was characterized by anticipatory and consummatory anhedonia.ConclusionThe results suggested firstly that ambivalence was not specific of disorganized schizotypy and secondly that anticipatory anhedonia was not specific of negative schizotypy.

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Psychometric Properties and Concurrent Validity of the Schizotypal Ambivalence Scale

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

Daily life evidence of environment-incongruent emotion in schizophrenia

Daily life evidence of environment-incongruent emotion in schizophrenia

Self-reported Ambivalence in Schizophrenia and Associations With Negative Mood

Relationship between anticipatory, consummatory anhedonia and disorganization in schizotypy

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