Psicothema was founded in Asturias (northern Spain) in 1989, and is published jointly by the Psychology Faculty of the University of Oviedo and the Psychological Association of the Principality of Asturias (Colegio Oficial de Psicología del Principado de Asturias).
We currently publish four issues per year, which accounts for some 100 articles annually. We admit work from both the basic and applied research fields, and from all areas of Psychology, all manuscripts being anonymously reviewed prior to publication.
Psicothema, 2007. Vol. Vol. 19 (nº 3). 467-472
Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, José Muñiz, Serafín Lemos Giráldez, Eduardo García-Cueto y Ángela Campillo-Álvarez
Universidad de Oviedo
El objetivo del presente trabajo fue estudiar la relación existente entre los problemas emocionales y del comportamiento y la esquizotipia psicométrica. También se estudió la relación entre la lateralidad manual y los rasgos de la personalidad esquizotípica. Se utilizó el Thinking and Perceptual Style Questionnaire, el Multidimensional Schizotypal Traits Questonnaire, el Inventario de Lateralidad Manual de Edinburgh y el Youth Self Report. Participaron un total de 296 adolescentes con una edad media de 13,8 años y una desviación típica de 1,34. Los resultados mostraron que los adolescentes con alta esquizotipia psicométrica presentan un mayor número de conductas problema, así como diferencias significativas en todos los factores centrales del Youth Self Report respecto a los adolescentes con baja esquizotipia psicométrica. El análisis discriminante mostró que los factores centrales del Youth Self Report clasifican correctamente al 84% de los adolescentes con alta o baja esquizotipia. Finalmente, los adolescentes con lateralidad manual ambidiestra no presentaron puntuaciones elevadas en ninguna de las escalas o factores que miden esquizotipia psicométrica con respecto a los adolescentes diestros o zurdos.
Handedness, emotional problems, and schizotypy.The purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between emotional or behavioural problems and schizotypy. An assessment of handedness and schizotypal personality traits were also performed by means of the Thinking and Perceptual Style Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Schizotypal Traits Questionnaire, the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, and the Youth Self-Report. The sample comprised 296 participants with a mean age of 13.8 and a standard deviation of 1.34. Data indicate that adolescents with high scores on psychometric factors of schizotypy displayed higher patterns of problem behaviours as well as a significant difference in all the core factors of the Youth Self-Report, compared to those who scored low on these measures. Discriminant analysis showed that the core factors of the Youth Self-Report correctly classified 84% of the adolescents with high or low scores on psychometric schizotypy. Lastly, no significant association between the factors of schizotypy and left-handedness, right-handedness, or mixed-handedness was found.
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