The social environment and psychosis : search for symptom specificity

Wickham, Sophie ORCID: 0000-0002-7515-2979 (2014) The social environment and psychosis : search for symptom specificity PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

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Abstract

Research with clinical and nonclinical samples has linked multiple psycho-social risk factors with psychosis. There has since been an emphasis on the importance of investigating specific symptoms experienced within the psychosis spectrum to better understand the psychological processes involved. The studies included in this doctoral thesis used cross sectional methods to explore relationships between specific social adversities and specific symptoms within the psychotic domain and also depression, using a number of different samples (students, client groups and general population). This thesis also explores mediating mechanisms between adversities and specific symptoms, paying particular attention to the role of specific adversities in paranoid ideation. I found that perceived childhood inequality, neglect and adulthood social deprivation and insecure attachment styles predicted paranoid thoughts in student, epidemiological and clinical samples. In my student study I further developed and validated a tool to measure perceived relative deprivation. I then used this tool and found that personal perceptions of injustice and low social rank mediated the relationship between perceived relative deprivation and paranoia. ... (continues)

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Additional Information:	Date: 2014-07 (completed)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	27 Aug 2015 15:18
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2026 12:35
DOI:	10.17638/02007509
Supervisors:	Bentall, Richard Kinderman, Peter
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2007509
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