A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCHIZOTYPAL TRAITS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR YOUNG ADOLESCENTS

The article describes the development of a 74-item schizotypal traits questionnaire for use with young adolescent groups. Seven schizotypy s cales were developed by modifying items from existing adult questionna ires, and administering these items to 136 Australian year 7 students (mean age 12.5 yr). Descriptive data and reliabilities for scales meas uring perceptual aberration, magical ideation, cognitive disorganizati on, paranoid ideation, physical anhedonia and impulsive nonconformity are presented. Factor analyses of scale scores did not clearly support either three- or four-factor models of schizotypy.