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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages 128-132Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.027
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Autism; Schizotypy; Autism Spectrum Quotient; Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences
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To further investigate claims of a relationship between autism and schizophrenia, the current study examined the associations between specific dimensions of autistic-like and schizotypy traits. These traits were assessed using the Autism Spectrum Quotient and the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences. After using factor analysis to explore the dimensions of autistic-like and schizotypy traits represented in these measures in two separate groups of students (N-1= 362, N-2 = 639), the relationships between these dimensions were examined. While the results are consistent with suggestions in the literature of an overlap in the interpersonal deficits associated with autism and schizophrenia, they offer little support for Crespi and Badcock's (2008) claim that autism and positive schizophrenia are diametrically opposed disorders. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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