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  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Attention to affect is a theoretical precursor to ideal affect and emotion regulation (ER).
  • Schizotypy research shows mixed findings on attention to affect abnormalities.
  • Little is known about ideal affect or the role of attention to affect in ER difficulties within schizotypy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify shared and unique abnormalities in attention to affect, ideal affect, and ER difficulties in schizotypy.
  • To investigate whether attention to affect underlies differences in ideal affect and ER difficulties in schizotypy.

Main Methods:

  • Compared individuals with extreme social anhedonia (SocAnh), perceptual aberrations/magical ideation (PerMag), and controls on attention to affect, ideal affect, and ER difficulties.
  • Utilized three groups: SocAnh (n=181), PerMag (n=105), and controls (n=531).

Main Results:

  • The SocAnh group showed the least attention to positive affect compared to controls.
  • The PerMag group exhibited heightened attention to negative affect.
  • Unique ideal affect abnormalities and largely shared ER difficulties were observed across schizotypy groups.
  • Attention to affect partially explained ideal affect and ER differences in the SocAnh group but not the PerMag group.

Conclusions:

  • Schizotypy is characterized by both shared and unique affective abnormalities.
  • Attention to affect plays a role in some, but not all, ideal affect and ER differences in schizotypy.
  • Findings clarify prior research and contribute to understanding affective dysregulation in schizotypy.