A large body of literature
suggests that schizophrenia and nonclinical schizotypal personality traits, or
"schizotypy," are associated with increased aggression. However,
recent studies focused on school-aged Asian samples have examined the
relationship between schizotypal personality and 2 distinct forms of
aggression: reactive and proactive aggression.
This study aimed to investigate
whether schizotypal personality traits would be associated more strongly with
reactive, compared with proactive, aggression in an adult Western sample and
whether victimization experiences mediated the schizotypy-reactive aggression
relation.
One hundred twenty-one Australian university undergraduates completed
self-report inventories measuring levels of schizotypal personality, reactive
and proactive aggression, and victimization. Results showed that, as
hypothesized, schizotypal personality traits were more strongly associated with
reactive than proactive aggression and that victimization experiences mediated
the schizotypy-reactive aggression relationship.
While acknowledging the
limitations of nonclinical schizotypy research, the findings are discussed with
regard to possible implications for the treatment of aggression in
schizophrenia.
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By: Yeung Shi Chung V1, McGuire J, Langdon R.
- 1*Department of Psychology and †ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders and Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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