The role of self-disturbances and cognitive biases in the relationship between traumatic life events and psychosis proneness in a non-clinical sample

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 193, Issue , 2018, Pages 218-224

  Gawęda, Łukasz ^a,b   Prochwicz, Katarzyna ^c   Adamczyk, Przemysław ^c   Frydecka, Dorota ^d   Misiak, Błażej ^d   Kotowicz, Kamila ^d   Szczepanowski, Remigiusz ^e   Florkowski, Marcin ^f   Nelson, Barnaby ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive biases; Psychosis; Psychotic like experiences; Self disorders; Traumatic life events

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISTURBANCE; SELF REPORT; TRAUMATIC LIFE EVENT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85023764185     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2017.07.023     Document Type: Article

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