Pathways from developmental vulnerabilities in early childhood to schizotypy in middle childhood.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Childhood disturbances in social, emotional, language, motor and cognitive functioning, and schizotypy have each been implicated as precursors of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. We investigated whether relationships between early childhood developmental vulnerabilities and childhood schizotypy are mediated by educational underachievement in middle childhood.

Methods

Participants were members of a large Australian (n = 19,216) population cohort followed longitudinally. Path analyses were used to model relationships between developmental vulnerabilities at age ~5 years, educational underachievement from ages ~8 to 10 years and three distinct profiles of schizotypy at age ~11 years (true, introverted and affective schizotypy).

Results

Early childhood develop

SUBMITTER: O'Hare K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10946562 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature