School of Psychology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
School of Psychology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
Psychiatry Res. 2014 Oct 30;219(2):380-5. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.05.040. Epub 2014 Jun 2.
Autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum disorders are classified separately in the DSM-5, yet research indicates that these two disorders share overlapping features. The aim of the present study was to examine the overlap between autistic and schizotypal personality traits and whether anxiety and depression act as confounding variables in this relationship within a non-clinical population. One hundred and forty-four adults completed the Autism Spectrum Quotient and the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21. A number of associations were seen between autistic and schizotypal personality traits. However, negative traits were the only schizotypal feature to uniquely predict global autistic traits, thus highlighting the importance of interpersonal qualities in the overlap of autistic and schizotypal characteristics. The inclusion of anxiety and depression did not alter relationships between autistic and schizotypal traits, indicating that anxiety and depression are not confounders of this relationship. These findings have important implications for the conceptualisation of both disorders.
自闭症谱系和精神分裂症谱系障碍在 DSM-5 中被分开分类，但研究表明这两种障碍有重叠的特征。本研究的目的是在非临床人群中检查自闭症特质和精神分裂特质之间的重叠，以及焦虑和抑郁是否在这种关系中作为混杂变量。144 名成年人完成了自闭症谱系商数、精神分裂特质问卷和抑郁焦虑压力量表-21。在自闭症特质和精神分裂特质之间发现了一些关联。然而，只有负面特质是唯一能预测整体自闭症特质的精神分裂特质，因此强调了人际关系在自闭症和精神分裂特质重叠中的重要性。焦虑和抑郁的纳入并没有改变自闭症特质和精神分裂特质之间的关系，这表明焦虑和抑郁不是这种关系的混杂因素。这些发现对这两种障碍的概念化有重要意义。
