Childhood Schizotypy and Adolescent Mental Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background and hypothesis

Schizotypy provides a framework for understanding the developmental nature of psychotic disorders and a means of identifying "at-risk" individuals early in the lifespan. However, there is a lack of prospective longitudinal research examining the relationship between schizotypy in childhood and later psychotic and other mental disorders. We hypothesized that distinct profiles of schizotypy in childhood would be differentially associated with psychotic and other mental disorders emerging later in adolescence.

Study design

In a large population cohort of Australian young people (n = 26 837), we prospectively examined the relationship between person-centered profiles of schizotypy identified in middle childhood (age ~11 years) and adolescent diagnoses (

SUBMITTER: O'Hare K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10754169 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature