Aberrant salience, self-concept CLARITY, and interview-rated psychotic-like experiences
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Many social-cognitive models of psychotic-like symptoms posit a role for self-concept and aberrant salience. Previous work has shown that the interaction between aberrant salience and self-concept clarity is associated with self-reported psychotic-like experiences. In the current research with two structured interviews, the interaction between aberrant salience and self-concept clarity was found to be associated with interview-rated psychotic-like experiences. The interaction was associated with psychotic-like experiences composite scores, delusional ideation, grandiosity, and perceptual anomalies. In all cases, self-concept clarity was negatively associated with psychotic-like experiences at high levels of aberrant salience, but unassociated with psychotic-like experiences at low levels of aberrant salience. The interaction was specific to positive psychotic-like experiences and not present for negative or disorganized ratings. The interaction was not mediated by self-esteem levels. These results provide further evidence that aberrant salience and self-concept clarity play an important role in the generation of psychotic-like experiences.
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Low self-concept clarity has been linked to aberrant salience and basic self-disturbances in nonclinical samples.
“Confusion about the self, indicated by low self-concept clarity, has also been linked to aberrant salience and basic self-disturbances in nonclinical samples (Cicero et al., 2013, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021; Gaweda et al., 2019).”
From Narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum: A systematic review and developmental model (2021) · cites this paper as Cicero et al., 2015
The Abstract reports that self-concept clarity and aberrant salience interact in their association with psychotic-like experiences, and the Method describes an undergraduate sample. The Discussion relates self-concept clarity to disturbances in self-experience, but says that measuring self-disturbances alongside aberrant salience is a task for future research. This paper therefore does not establish the claimed link with basic self-disturbances in its nonclinical sample. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Cicero, D. C., Docherty, A. R., Becker, T. M., Martin, E. A., & Kerns, J. G.
- Affiliations
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (US)
- University of Missouri (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality Disorders
- Publisher
- Guilford Publications
- Published
- 2015-02
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 79-99
- ISSN
- 0885-579X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4315771
- OpenAlex
- W2124406418
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Personality Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH086190, T32MH020030)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- aberrant salience, self-concept clarity, psychotic-like experiences, delusional ideation, grandiosity, perceptual anomalies, self-esteem, structured interviews
- MeSH terms
- Cross-Sectional Studies, Delusions, Female, Hallucinations, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Models, Psychological, Personality Assessment, Psychological Tests, Psychometrics, Psychotic Disorders, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Self Concept, Sensitivity and Specificity, Students, Reproducibility of Results
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