Emotion Regulation in Trait Schizotypy

Danube University Krems

Status: Completed

Conditions: Trait Schizotypy

Treatments: Behavioral: instruction to suppress; Behavioral: control; Behavioral: instruction to reappraise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03694574

DanubeUK

Details and patient eligibility

About

Our aim is to compare state anger and state emotion regulation strategies in healthy individuals with high trait schizotypy and to look at differences of induced anger, negative emotions, decrease of positive emotions and aggressive behaviour after anger induction. Our further aim is to compare conditions where an instruction to suppress or reappraise emotions is given with a control condition with no instruction.

Enrollment: 131 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 58 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age between 18 and 58 years,
• good command of German language

Exclusion criteria

• present or past psychiatric or neurological illness,
• ongoing treatment with psychiatric drugs,
• constant consume of heroin or hallucinogenic drugs,
• alcohol dependence,
• cannabis consume two weeks before testing.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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131 participants in 2 patient groups

Low schizotypy

Other group

Description:

Schizotypy score \< 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)

Treatment:

Behavioral: instruction to suppress

Behavioral: instruction to reappraise

Behavioral: control

High schizotypy

Other group

Description:

Schizotypy score ≥ 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)

Treatment:

Behavioral: instruction to suppress

Behavioral: instruction to reappraise

Behavioral: control