Illusory superiority and schizotypal personality: explaining the discrepancy between subjective/objective psychopathology.

ABSTRACT: An interesting paradox has emerged from the literature regarding schizotypy--defined as the personality organization reflecting a putative liability for schizophrenia--spectrum disorders. Across certain cognitive, emotional, quality of life, and other functional variables, individuals with schizotypy report experiencing relatively severe levels of pathology. However, on objective tests of these same variables, individuals with schizotypy perform largely in the healthy range. These subjective impairments are paradoxical in that individuals with schizotypy, typically recruited from undergraduate college populations, should be healthier in virtually every conceivable measure compared to chronic, older outpatients with severe mental illness. The present study evaluated the idea that the subjec

SUBMITTER: Cohen AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4372844 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature