Schizotypy and Cognitive Failures: A Mediating Role for Affect

Authors

Nicole Carrigan, University of WollongongFollow
Emma Barkus, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

114030

Publication Details

Carrigan, N. & Barkus, E. (2017). Schizotypy and Cognitive Failures: A Mediating Role for Affect. Psychopathology, 50 (3), 195-202.

Abstract

Cognitive failures are disruptions in cognitive functioning during everyday life. Vulnerability to these failures is increased in a range of psychological disorders, including schizophrenia. In addition, healthy individuals with personality-based psychosis proneness, or schizotypy, often complain of heightened failures. A factor known to exacerbate cognitive failures is negative affect. Negative affectivity is linked to both schizophrenia and schizotypy. It is therefore possible that affect is responsible for the increased everyday cognitive failures in “high schizotypes”.