| Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2004-155.02 |
| Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 23/2004
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Title:
| Benign schizotypy: Investigating differences between clusters of schizotype on paranormal belief, creativity, intelligence and mental health
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| Publication year: | 2009
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URL:
| http://www.academia.edu/695141/Benign_schizotypy_Investigating_differences_between_clusters_of_schizotype_on_paranormal_belief_creativity_intelligence_and_mental_health
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| Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
Belief in ostensibly paranormal phenomena has often been associated with poor critical thinking, suggestibility and psychopathology in the research literature. Other work has found that belief in the paranormal is multidimensional, with some aspects relating to mental health and others relating to psychopathology. Paranormal belief has been found to be highly correlated with the personality construct schizotypy (in particular that of ‘positive schizotypy’, indicative of unusual experiences, such as pseudo-hallucinations). Schizotypy is a personality continuum which may underpin both believing in and experiencing paranormal phenomena, and artistic creativity. However, cluster analyses have indicated that there are two types of high scorers on positive schizotypy – one relating to mental health (variously termed ‘healthy’, ‘happy’ or ‘benign’ schizotypy), and the other more to ill health (‘high’ schizotypy). The current study sought to replicate and extend previous work supporting the construct of the ‘happy schizotype’ and, by extrapolation, the ‘happy believer in the paranormal’. 183 participants completed a battery of questionnaires including the short OLIFE (to measure schizotypy), the Sense of Coherence Scale (to measure mental health), four measures of creativity (Creative Activities, Creative Personality, Emotional Creativity and Creative Cognition), and the Vocabulary and Blocks Tests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales. A cluster analysis of z-score transformed scores on the OLIFE measure of schizotypy was undertaken and a MANOVA run to compare scoring on each of the dependent variables. Findings partially support the notion of a happy schizotype, who is characterized by mental well-being, belief in the paranormal and who scores on highly on a range of creativity measures. No significant differences were found between the clusters in intelligence. Findings are discussed in terms of the prior literature.
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| Accessibility: | Document exists in file (in the attachments of the final report / previous version submitted for publication)
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Copyright/Reproduction:
| By permission
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Holt, N.
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Secondary author(s):
| Simmonds-Moore, C., Moore, S.
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Document type:
| Conference paper
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Number of reproductions:
| 2
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Reference:
| Holt, N., Simmonds-Moore, C., & Moore, S. (2009). Benign schizotypy: Investigating differences between clusters of schizotype on paranormal belief, creativity, intelligence and mental health. In S. Sherwood (Ed.), Proceedings of Presented Papers: The Parapsychological Association 51st Annual Convention, Winchester, UK (pp. 82-96).
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| Indexed document: | No
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| Keywords: | Parapsychology / Paranormal belief / Positive schizotypy
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Benign schizotypy: Investigating differences between clusters of schizotype on paranormal belief, creativity, intelligence and mental health |