The Psychometric Detection of Schizotypy : Do Putative Schizotypy Indicators Identify the Same Latent Class?
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Thomas R. Kwapil, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The authors examined whether three indicators of Schizotypy, the Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS), Magical Ideation Scale (MIS), and Perceptual Aberration Scale (PAS), identify a common latent class or taxon as conceptualized by P. E. Meehl (1962, 1990). The separate and joint latent structures of these scales were evaluated using taxometric methods in two large, independent samples. Replicating prior findings, the RSAS and PAS each identified latent taxa with base rates approximating .10. Results for the taxonicity of the MIS were less consistent. Analyses of joint latent structure indicated that the RSAS-identified taxon was essentially independent of constructs measured by the PAS or MIS. Measures commonly thought to tap the same latent class, conjectured to be schizotypy, do not share this property.
The Psychometric Detection of Schizotypy : Do Putative Schizotypy Indicators Identify the Same Latent Class?
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2004
- Keywords
- putative schizotypy indicators, psychometric detection, latent class, taxon, taxometric methods, magical ideation scale, perceptual aberration scale , revised social anhedonia scale, psychology