Schizotaxia, schizotypy, schizophrenia.

Meehl, Paul E.

doi:10.1037/h0041029

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“…Ambivalence has long been thought to be a potentially important aspect of schizophrenia and schizotypy (Bleuler, 1911(Bleuler, /1950Meehl, 1962Meehl, , 1990Raulin & Brenner, 1993) and ambivalence has been strongly associated with decreased emotional clarity and problems identifying feelings (Kerns, 2006). The current results suggest that in addition to being associated with poor working memory that disorganized schizotypy is also associated with increased ambivalence and with decreased ability to identify emotions.…”

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“…For example, Hoch and Cattell (1959) described people with pseudoneurotic schizophrenia as having a disturbance of thought process (separate from thought content), including disturbances in goal-directed thought and thought continuity. In addition, Meehl posited that associative loosening or what he called cognitive slippage was the most dependable indictor of schizotypy (Meehl, 1964) and that it was a primary manifestation of a schizophrenia diathesis (Meehl, 1962(Meehl, , 1990. Moreover, previous research has found that relatives of people with schizophrenia exhibit increased CD (e.g., Docherty et al, 2004).…”

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“…Schizotypy refers to traits that are similar to symptoms of schizophrenia but often in a less severe form (Chapman, Chapman, Raulin, & Edell, 1978;Meehl, 1962). Therefore, disorganized schizotypy refers to disorganized speech and behavior traits that are similar to the disorganization symptoms of schizophrenia (Kerns, 2006).…”

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“…Therefore, disorganized schizotypy refers to disorganized speech and behavior traits that are similar to the disorganization symptoms of schizophrenia (Kerns, 2006). In general, schizotypy traits are thought to reflect liability for schizophrenia (Meehl, 1962) and schizotypy research might provide evidence about the nature of liability for schizophrenia (Lenzenweger, 1999). Similarly, understanding the nature of schizotypy traits might contribute to an explanation for the development of schizophrenic symptoms.…”

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“…In one previous study (Kerns, 2006), disorganized schizotypy has been found to be associated with increased emotional ambivalence. Ambivalence has been defined as reporting simultaneously conflicting emotions about something (Raulin & Brenner, 1993) and ambivalence has long been thought to be an important feature of schizophrenia (Bleuler, 1911(Bleuler, /1950Meehl, 1962). Importantly, conceptually ambivalence appears to be distinct from anhedonia, as anhedonia refers to a paucity of positive feelings whereas ambivalence refers to simultaneous positive and negative feelings.…”

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Communication disturbances, working memory, and emotion in people with elevated disorganized schizotypy

Kerns¹,

Becker²

2008

Schizophrenia Research

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This study examined whether people with elevated disorganized schizotypy would differ from control participants on characteristics associated with disorganization symptoms in schizophrenia and also whether disorganized schizotypy was associated with problems processing emotion. People with disorganized schizotypy (n = 32) exhibited greater communication disturbances (CD) than control participants (n = 34) for emotionally negative topics but not for positive topics. In addition, the disorganized group exhibited poorer performance on a working memory task but not on a psychometrically matched verbal intelligence task. In addition, poor working memory was associated with increased CD for negative topics and, after controlling for group differences in working memory, group differences in CD were not significant. Moreover, the disorganized group exhibited greater emotional ambivalence and ambivalence was associated with increased CD in the disorganized group. These results suggest that people with disorganized schizotypy exhibit some similar characteristics to people with schizophrenia who have disorganization symptoms and that disorganized schizotypy is also associated with poor emotion processing.

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