The role of self-disturbances and cognitive biases in the relationship between traumatic life events and psychosis proneness in a non-clinical sample

Traumatic life events have been established as an environmental risk factor for psychosis. However, the exact mechanisms by which traumatic life events increase risk for psychosis are unknown. In the present study we tested an integrative model of traumatic life events being related to psychosis proneness via self-disturbances and cognitive biases.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - July 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Łukasz Gawęda, Katarzyna Prochwicz, Przemysław Adamczyk, Dorota Frydecka, Błażej Misiak, Kamila Kotowicz, Remigiusz Szczepanowski, Marcin Florkowski, Barnaby Nelson Source Type: research