Open AccessChildhood Cat Bites Relate to Increased Adulthood Severity of Schizotypy, Psychotic-Like Experiences, and Social Anhedonia in a Transdiagnostic Psychiatric Sample
Author(s) -
Jeffrey S. Bedwell,
Christopher Spencer,
Amber L. Southwell
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1423-033X
pISSN - 0254-4962
DOI - 10.1159/000505786
Subject(s) - anhedonia , schizotypy , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , bipolar disorder , psychiatry , depression (economics) , psychosis , clinical psychology , cognition , economics , macroeconomics
Previous research has linked childhood cat scratches and bites to an increased risk for depression, and childhood cat ownership to increased risk of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and social anhedonia. Our group previously reported that childhood cat bites, but not ownership, related to increased schizotypy severity in an undergraduate sample.