TY - JOUR
T1 - Dimensions underlying psychotic and manic symptomatology
T2 - Extending normal-range personality traits to schizophrenia and bipolar spectra
AU - Wilson, Sylia
AU - Sponheim, Scott R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Objective Covariance among psychiatric disorders can be accounted for by higher-order internalizing, externalizing, and psychosis dimensions, but placement of bipolar disorder within this framework has been inconsistent. Moreover, whether deviations in normal-range personality can explain psychosis and vulnerability to severe mood lability, as seen in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, remains unclear.Methods Exploratory factor analysis of interviewer-rated clinical symptoms in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, their first-degree biological relatives, and nonpsychiatric controls (total N = 193), followed by examination of associations between symptom dimensions and self reports on personality questionnaires.Results Covariance in symptoms was accounted for by five factors: positive symptoms of psychosis, negative symptoms of psychosis, disorganization, mania, and depression/anxiety. Schizophrenia and bipolar patients/relatives reported elevated negative emotionality and absorption and lower positive emotionality relative to controls. Personality did not differ between schizophrenia and bipolar patients/relatives, but there was a different pattern of associations between symptoms and personality in these groups.Conclusions Discrete dimensions reflecting psychotic, manic, and depressive symptoms emerge when a broad set of clinical symptoms is examined in a sample overrepresented by psychotic experiences and affective disturbances. Although normal-range personality traits index common phenotypes spanning schizophrenia and bipolar spectra, the same symptoms may carry different significance across disorders.
AB - Objective Covariance among psychiatric disorders can be accounted for by higher-order internalizing, externalizing, and psychosis dimensions, but placement of bipolar disorder within this framework has been inconsistent. Moreover, whether deviations in normal-range personality can explain psychosis and vulnerability to severe mood lability, as seen in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, remains unclear.Methods Exploratory factor analysis of interviewer-rated clinical symptoms in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, their first-degree biological relatives, and nonpsychiatric controls (total N = 193), followed by examination of associations between symptom dimensions and self reports on personality questionnaires.Results Covariance in symptoms was accounted for by five factors: positive symptoms of psychosis, negative symptoms of psychosis, disorganization, mania, and depression/anxiety. Schizophrenia and bipolar patients/relatives reported elevated negative emotionality and absorption and lower positive emotionality relative to controls. Personality did not differ between schizophrenia and bipolar patients/relatives, but there was a different pattern of associations between symptoms and personality in these groups.Conclusions Discrete dimensions reflecting psychotic, manic, and depressive symptoms emerge when a broad set of clinical symptoms is examined in a sample overrepresented by psychotic experiences and affective disturbances. Although normal-range personality traits index common phenotypes spanning schizophrenia and bipolar spectra, the same symptoms may carry different significance across disorders.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.07.008
DO - 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.07.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 25091283
AN - SCOPUS:84912117297
SN - 0010-440X
VL - 55
SP - 1809
EP - 1819
JO - Comprehensive Psychiatry
JF - Comprehensive Psychiatry
IS - 8
ER -