Independent living skills and hypothetical psychosis proneness

✍ Scribed by David Schuldberg; Carol Blum

• Book ID: 102681216
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 653 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6629(199307)21:3<179::aid-jcop2290210302>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

This study examines the relationship between independent living skills and perceptual aberration-magical ideation, a measure of hypothetical psychosis proneness. Interpersonal and community living skills were assessed with the Self-Assessment Guide (SAG), a self-report measure of interpersonal skills and relationships, leisure and financial support, as well as health, affect, and control of aggression. Problem-solving skills were assessed with an analogue task, the Means-Ends Problem Solving Procedure (MEPS). Hypothetically psychosis-prone respondents reported lower levels of skills on the SAG, particularly in the interpersonal area, but did not demonstrate problem-solving deficits on the MEPS. The results suggest a link between deficits in interpersonal independent living skills and a hypothetical predisposition to psychopathology. This indicates that skills deficits are unlikely to arise solely as secondary reactions to symptomatology, hospitalization, or otherwise disrupted community adjustment. Implications for community-based preventive programs are also discussed.