Distress factors of voice-hearing in young people and social relating: Exploring a cognitive-interpersonal voice-hearing model.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little is known about the factors that can maintain the distress related to voice-hearing experiences in youth. Building upon understandings developed with adults, this study aimed to explore the associations between negative relating between hearer and voices, persecutory beliefs about voices and voice-related distress in a clinical sample of adolescents. The study also aimed to investigate associations between relating to voices and wider patterns of social relating.

Design

This was an observational, cross-sectional, survey study.

Methods

Thirty-four young people (age 14-18 years) who were hearing voices completed measures about voices (characteristics, relating and beliefs) and relating to social others (negative relating styles, social connectedness and

SUBMITTER: Rammou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9795969 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature