Mediators of psychotic-like experiences in community youths after trauma: positive sense of agency and post-traumatic stress symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trauma exposure has been associated with the development of psychotic disorders in adolescence and young adulthood. Trauma can compromise the sense of agency, a predictor of psychosis. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after trauma may also imply significant cognitive impairments that predispose young people to psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). This study investigates whether the two senses of agency subtypes - positive and negative agency, and PTSD symptoms mediated PLEs in youths after trauma.

Aims

The study aimed to explore the mediation of the sense of agency and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the development of psychotic-like experiences after trauma.

Method

Participants were Hong Kong youths aged 12 to 25 who completed surveys onli

SUBMITTER: So MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12641413 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature