Screening for psychotic experiences: Social desirability biases in a non-clinical sample

Early Intervention in Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 331-334

  Devylder, Jordan E ^a   Hilimire, Matthew R ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Prevention; Psychosis continuum; Psychotic like experience; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARLOWE CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCORE; SUSPICIOUSNESS; ADOLESCENT; HALLUCINATION; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ADOLESCENT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 84940826796     PISSN: 17517885     EISSN: 17517893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eip.12161     Document Type: Article

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