Humiliation and state anxiety as predictors of attenuated psychosis in a community sample

Abstract Existing literature suggests that humiliation experiences, coupled with a negative family context, significantly predicts persecutory ideation in non-clinical participants. Whether this may also be linked to attenuated psychotic experiences is unknown. The current study aimed assess whether familial adversity and related hallucination-like (HLEs) other symptoms, if state anxiety contributed these relationships. This cross-sectional recruited community sample of 93 adults (38% male; mean age = 27.3 years, standard deviation 10.8 years), who completed measures maladaptive environments, past anticipated symptoms. Correlations hierarchical regressions tested for direct indirect relationships amongst variables. A (past anticipated) were positively correlated HLEs, facets Anxiety uniquely predicted audio-visual multisensory HLEs. Past jointly cognitive-perceptual disturbance disorganisation, whereas fear interpersonal difficulty. Elevated anxiety, humiliation, increase symptoms adulthood. Future research needed ascertain hold true clinical cohorts examine the significance data.