Brief assessment of schizotypal traits: A multinational study

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Fonseca-Pedrero, E
Ortuño-Sierra, J
Lucas-Molina, B
Debbané, M
Chan, RCK
Cicero, DC
Zhang, LC
Brenner, C
Barkus, E
Linscott, RJ
Kwapil, T
Barrantes-Vidal, N
Cohen, A
Raine, A
Compton, MT
Tone, EB
Suhr, J
Bobes, J
Fumero, A
Giakoumaki, S
Tsaousis, I
Preti, A
Chmielewski, M
Laloyaux, J
Mechri, A
Lahmar, MA
Wuthrich, V
Larøi, F
Badcock, JC
Jablensky, A
Barron, D
Swami, V
Tran, US
Voracek, M
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2018
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The Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief (SPQ-B) was developed with the aim of examining variations in healthy trait schizotypy, as well as latent vulnerability to psychotic-spectrum disorders. No previous study has studied the cross-cultural validity of the SPQ-B in a large cross-national sample. The main goal of the present study was to analyze the reliability and the internal structure of SPQ-B scores in a multinational sample of 28,426 participants recruited from 14 countries. The mean age was 22.63 years (SD = 7.08; range 16–68 years), 37.7% (n = 10,711) were men. The omega coefficients were high, ranging from 0.86 to 0.92 for the total sample. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that SPQ-B items were grouped either in a theoretical structure of three first-order factors (Cognitive-Perceptual, Interpersonal, and Disorganized) or in a bifactor model (three first-order factors plus a general factor of schizotypal personality). In addition, the results supported configural but not strong measurement invariance of SPQ-B scores across samples. These findings provide new information about the factor structure of schizotypal personality, and support the validity and utility of the SPQ-B, a brief and easy tool for assessing self-reported schizotypal traits, in cross-national research. Theoretical and clinical implications for diagnostic systems, psychosis models, and cross-national mental health strategies are derived from these results.

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Schizophrenia Research

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197

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Psychology

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