The meaning of momentary psychotic-like experiences in a non-clinical sample: A personality perspective

PLoS One. 2022 Apr 20;17(4):e0267054. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267054. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

The relationships between Momentary Psychotic-Like Experiences (MPLEs) and HEXACO-complemented by the proneness to PLEs conceptualized as a basic personality trait (Disintegration), and a maladaptive trait (PID-5 Psychoticism)-were investigated in a prospective study that includes experience-sampling methodology (ESM). The main goal was to investigate whether MPLEs are better predicted by HEXACO or measures of the dispositional proneness to PLEs. A sample of 180 participants assessed MPLEs and affective states they experienced in the previous two hours, twice per day, with semi-randomly set assessment time-points, during seven days, by using ESM. Personality inventories were administered 1-2 months earlier. MPLEs were better predicted by the measures of dispositional tendencies toward PLEs than by the HEXACO, no matter whether it was broadly defined as the nine-faceted general tendency toward PLEs (Disintegration), or narrowly as three-faceted positive psychotic-like symptoms of maladaptive personality tendencies (PID-5-Psychoticism).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Personality
  • Personality Disorders / diagnosis
  • Personality Inventory
  • Prospective Studies
  • Psychotic Disorders* / psychology

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia), project number 451-03-9/2021-14/ 200163.