ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2021
Toward a Complex Network of Risks for Psychosis: Combining Trauma, Cognitive Biases, Depression, and Psychotic-like Experiences on a Large Sample of Young Adults.
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- A systematic review of studies using network analysis to assess dynamics of psychotic-like experiences in community samples.Psychological medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Social disconnection and psychotic-like experiences in the Slovak DISCONNECT epidemiological study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Pathways between childhood trauma, clinical symptoms, and functioning in new-onset psychosis: novel insights from a network analysis approach.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- A Transdiagnostic Network Analysis of Childhood Trauma and Psychopathology.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Predicting psychotic-like experiences among adolescents: the interplay of childhood trauma, cognitive biases, neuroticism, and depression.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Understanding Pathways from Cognitive Biases to the Risk of Psychosis: A Network Analysis Approach.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- A longitudinal network of psychotic-like experiences, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and adverse life events: a cohort study of 3,358 college students.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Article
- Psychotic-like Experiences and Underlying Mechanisms: An Integrative Model of ADHD Symptoms, Rumination, Negative Affect, and Trauma Experience.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Association of Anxiety/Depressive Symptoms with Psychotic-like Experiences: The Moderation Effect of Sex and Resilience.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Resilience buffers the association between psychotic-like experiences and suicide risk: a prospective study from a non-clinical sample.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Etiopathogenic Models of Psychosis Spectrum Illnesses Must Resolve Four Key Features.Biological psychiatry · 2022Review
- Role of polygenic and environmental factors in the co-occurrence of depression and psychosis symptoms: a network analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Childhood maltreatment mediates the effect of the genetic background on psychosis risk in young adults.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although the linkage between traumatic life events and psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) is well established, the knowledge of potential mechanisms of this relationship is scarce. The aim of the present study was to better understand the structure of connections between traumatic life events and PLEs by considering at the same time the role of cognitive biases and depressive symptoms in the population of young adults (18-35 years of age, M = 26.52, SD = 4.74, n = 6772). Our study was conducted within a framework of network analysis. PLEs were measured with the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ-16), cognitive biases were measured with nine items from the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale-18 (DACOBS-18), depressive symptoms were assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CESD-R) and exposure to traumatic life events was measured with a combination of Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Questionnaire (CECA.Q) and Traumatic Experience Checklist (TEC). The results present a network of all nodes being interconnected within and between domains, with no isolated factors. Exposures to sexual trauma were the most central node in the network. Pathways were identified from trauma to PLEs via cognitive biases and depressive symptoms. However, the shortest pathway between the most central traumatic life event and PLEs was through other traumatic life events, without cognitive biases or depressive symptoms along the way. Our findings suggest the importance of environmental adversities as well as dysfunctional information processing and depression in the network of psychosis risks.
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