Schizophrenia Research
Volume 122, Issue 1 , Pages 219-225 , September 2010

Psychopathology, social adjustment and personality correlates of schizotypy clusters in a large nonclinical sample

  • Neus Barrantes-Vidal

      Affiliations

    • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
    • Sant Pere Claver-Fundació Sanitària, Spain
    • CIBER Salud Mental, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
    • ,
  • Kathryn E. Lewandowski

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Medical School, United States
    • ,
  • Thomas R. Kwapil

      Affiliations

    • University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170, United States. Tel.: +1 336 256 0003; fax: +1 336 334 5066.

Received 28 November 2009 ,Revised 7 January 2010 ,Accepted 11 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2010.01.006

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 122, Issue 1 , Pages 219-225 , September 2010

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