Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample
In this study, we asked people from two samples (a clinical one, consisting of patients with schizophrenia, and a non-clinical one, including university students) to complete the Revised Hallucination Scale (RHS) as a self-questionnaire. When the participants responded positively to an item, they we...
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| author | Stanghellini, Giovanni Langer, Álvaro I. Ambrosini, Alessandra Cangas Díaz, Adolfo Javier |
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| description | In this study, we asked people from two samples (a clinical one, consisting of patients with schizophrenia, and a non-clinical one, including university students) to complete the Revised Hallucination Scale (RHS) as a self-questionnaire. When the participants responded positively to an item, they were encouraged to provide further detailed descriptions (i.e., examples of their own experiences) concerning that item. We found that the kinds of descriptions provided by the two groups were very different. We suggest that it is not advisable to explore the presence of hallucinations in non-clinical samples using research protocols based exclusively on yes-or-no answers to questionnaires like the RHS. Hallucinatory or hallucinatory-like experiences cannot be reliably and validly assessed without a precise characterization of the phenomenal quality of the experience. Keywords: Continuum model, hallucinations, psychotic–like experiences, phenomenology, qualitative analysis, schizophrenia |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-20502023-04-12T19:41:53Z Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample Stanghellini, Giovanni Langer, Álvaro I. Ambrosini, Alessandra Cangas Díaz, Adolfo Javier In this study, we asked people from two samples (a clinical one, consisting of patients with schizophrenia, and a non-clinical one, including university students) to complete the Revised Hallucination Scale (RHS) as a self-questionnaire. When the participants responded positively to an item, they were encouraged to provide further detailed descriptions (i.e., examples of their own experiences) concerning that item. We found that the kinds of descriptions provided by the two groups were very different. We suggest that it is not advisable to explore the presence of hallucinations in non-clinical samples using research protocols based exclusively on yes-or-no answers to questionnaires like the RHS. Hallucinatory or hallucinatory-like experiences cannot be reliably and validly assessed without a precise characterization of the phenomenal quality of the experience. Keywords: Continuum model, hallucinations, psychotic–like experiences, phenomenology, qualitative analysis, schizophrenia 2013-04-03T07:04:32Z 2013-04-03T07:04:32Z 2012-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://hdl.handle.net/10835/2050 en http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3363387/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| spellingShingle | Stanghellini, Giovanni Langer, Álvaro I. Ambrosini, Alessandra Cangas Díaz, Adolfo Javier Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample |
| title | Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample |
| title_full | Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample |
| title_short | Quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample |
| title_sort | quality of hallucinatory experiences: differences between a clinical and a non-clinical sample |
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