Relationships between psychometric schizotypy, and emotional and socioenvironment variables

Abstract

The aim of this study was to explore emotional and socioenvironmental differences between subjects with extreme scores in psychometric schizotypy. One hundred university students participated in this study, divided in groups with high or low scores in the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory (O-LIFE) and/or some of its subscales. Subjects with high psychometric schizotypy scores showed higher scores in depression (BDI), state anxiety (STAI-S), trait anxiety (STAI-T) and hostility (Ho) than low psychomet-ric schizotypy subjects. Analysis of the scores taken with the Structured Interview for the Evaluation of Socioenvironment Variables showed subjects with high scores in psychotypy to give less importance to family relationships, that are worse, show more vital events and are less efficient in the use of their time for study than low score subjects. These results mainly appear in the global score of O-LIFE and in the Impulsivity Nonconformity subscale.