Social Functioning in Chinese College Students with and without Schizotypal Personality Traits: An Exploratory Study of the Chinese Version of the First Episode Social Functioning Scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yi ^a,b   Yeh, Ya hsuan ^c   Tsang, Sin man ^c   Liu, Wen hua ^d   Shi, Hai song ^a,b   Li, Zhi ^a   Shi, Yan fang ^a   Wang, Ya ^a   Wang, Yu na ^a   Lui, Simon S Y ^a,b   Neumann, David L ^e,f   Shum, David H K ^f   Chan, Raymond C K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; FIRST EPISODE SOCIAL FUNCTIONING SCALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84877755015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061115     Document Type: Article

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