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Biosocial implications growing from high‐risk research
Author(s) -
Schulsinger F.,
Mednick S. A.,
Walker E. F.,
Cudeck R.,
Moffitt T.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1980.tb07681.x
Subject(s) - biosocial theory , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , descriptive research , etiology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , personality , social science , sociology
A brief report of Mednick & Schulsinger's high‐risk study of schizophrenia is given. Path analyses of social and biological variables in the study demonstrate sex differences with implications for the etiology of schizophrenia. Sex is discussed as a possible non‐descriptive, biological addition to the traditional descriptive way of conceptualizing schizophrenia. Evidence for other social or psychological extensions of the definition of schizophrenia is mentioned.