Abstract
Risk Factors of Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome in African American Young Adults: Ethnic Identity and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Highlights
National Alliance of Mental Illness [1] found that one in 17 adults, roughly about 13.6 million, live with a serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, or schizophrenia
The results revealed that materialism and individualism subscales of Cultural Misorientation (CM), a measure of ethnic identity, mediated the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and subclinical psychotic symptoms in women
Results support the construct of psychosis proneness by way of childhood abuse for African American young adult females
Summary
National Alliance of Mental Illness [1] found that one in 17 adults, roughly about 13.6 million, live with a serious mental illness such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, or schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to examine risk factors of attenuated psychosis syndrome in a sample of African American young adults, to investigate whether a lack of ethnic identity and the presence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) put an individual at a higher risk of developing attenuated psychotic symptoms. Symptom(s) is not better explained by another mental disorder, including depressive or bipolar disorder with
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