Ethnicity, violent offending, and vulnerability to schizophrenia: a pilot study.

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Tytuł:: Ethnicity, violent offending, and vulnerability to schizophrenia: a pilot study.
Autorzy:: Mason OJ; Research Department of Clinical, Health and Educational Psychology, University College London, London, UK. />Medford S
Peters ER
Źródło:: Psychology and psychotherapy [Psychol Psychother] 2012 Jun; Vol. 85 (2), pp. 143-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 May 20.
Typ publikacji:: Journal Article
Język:: English
Imprint Name(s):: Publication: 2011- : West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell
Original Publication: Leicester, UK : British Psychological Society, c2002-
MeSH Terms:: Schizophrenic Psychology*
Black People/*statistics & numerical data
Crime/*statistics & numerical data
Schizophrenia/*ethnology
Violence/*statistics & numerical data
Adult ; Analysis of Variance ; Black People/psychology ; Caribbean Region/ethnology ; Crime/ethnology ; Crime/psychology ; Delusions/ethnology ; Hostility ; Humans ; Male ; Personality Inventory/statistics & numerical data ; Pilot Projects ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/statistics & numerical data ; Psychometrics ; United Kingdom/epidemiology ; Violence/ethnology ; Violence/psychology ; White People/psychology ; White People/statistics & numerical data ; Young Adult
Entry Date(s):: Date Created: 20120821 Date Completed: 20121219 Latest Revision: 20221207
Update Code:: 20240104
DOI:: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.2011.02021.x
PMID:: 22903906
: Czasopismo naukowe

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Previous research has highlighted increased risk for schizophrenia in Afro-Caribbeans as well as over-representation in the prison population. This small-scale study examined the relationship between criminality, ethnicity, and psychosis-proneness in a male prison sample. Twenty British Caucasian and 20 Afro-Caribbean prisoners were divided into equal sub-groups of violent and non-violent offenders. Participants completed measures of schizotypy, delusional ideation, and hostility. Afro-Caribbean offenders scored more highly on negative schizotypy and delusional ideation than their Caucasian counterparts. Violent offenders scored more highly on the positive symptoms of schizotypy than non-violent prisoners. Both ethnicity and violent offending may be relevant factors when considering vulnerability to psychosis in the offending population.
(©2011 The British Psychological Society.)

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