Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning
The relationships of spirituality with human social cognition, as exemplified in autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum cognitive variation, remain largely unstudied. We quantified non-clinical levels of autism spectrum and schizotypal spectrum traits (using the Autism Quotient and the Schizotyp...
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description | The relationships of spirituality with human social cognition, as exemplified in autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum cognitive variation, remain largely unstudied. We quantified non-clinical levels of autism spectrum and schizotypal spectrum traits (using the Autism Quotient and the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief Revised) and dimensions of spirituality (using the Hardt Spirituality Questionnaire) in a large sample of undergraduate students. We tested in particular the hypothesis, based on the diametrical model of autism and psychosis, that autism should be negatively associated, and positive schizotypal traits should be positively associated, with spirituality. Our primary findings were threefold. First, in support of the diametric model, total Spirituality score was significantly negatively correlated with total Autism Quotient score, and significantly positively correlated with Positive Schizotypal traits (the Schizotypal Personality Cognitive-Perceptual subscale), as predicted. Second, these associations were driven mainly by opposite patterns regarding the Search for Meaning Spirituality subscale, which was the only subscale that was significantly negatively associated with autism, and significantly positively associated with Positive Schizotypal traits. Third, Belief in God was positively correlated with Positive Schizotypal traits, but was uncorrelated with autism traits. The opposite findings for Search for Meaning can be interpreted in the contexts of well-supported cognitive models for understanding autism in terms of weak central coherence, and understanding Positive Schizotypal traits in terms of enhanced salience. |
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spelling | pubmed-64077812019-03-17 Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning Crespi, Bernard Dinsdale, Natalie Read, Silven Hurd, Peter PLoS One Research Article The relationships of spirituality with human social cognition, as exemplified in autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum cognitive variation, remain largely unstudied. We quantified non-clinical levels of autism spectrum and schizotypal spectrum traits (using the Autism Quotient and the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire-Brief Revised) and dimensions of spirituality (using the Hardt Spirituality Questionnaire) in a large sample of undergraduate students. We tested in particular the hypothesis, based on the diametrical model of autism and psychosis, that autism should be negatively associated, and positive schizotypal traits should be positively associated, with spirituality. Our primary findings were threefold. First, in support of the diametric model, total Spirituality score was significantly negatively correlated with total Autism Quotient score, and significantly positively correlated with Positive Schizotypal traits (the Schizotypal Personality Cognitive-Perceptual subscale), as predicted. Second, these associations were driven mainly by opposite patterns regarding the Search for Meaning Spirituality subscale, which was the only subscale that was significantly negatively associated with autism, and significantly positively associated with Positive Schizotypal traits. Third, Belief in God was positively correlated with Positive Schizotypal traits, but was uncorrelated with autism traits. The opposite findings for Search for Meaning can be interpreted in the contexts of well-supported cognitive models for understanding autism in terms of weak central coherence, and understanding Positive Schizotypal traits in terms of enhanced salience. Public Library of Science 2019-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6407781/ /pubmed/30849096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213456 Text en © 2019 Crespi et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Crespi, Bernard Dinsdale, Natalie Read, Silven Hurd, Peter Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning |
title | Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning |
title_full | Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning |
title_fullStr | Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning |
title_full_unstemmed | Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning |
title_short | Spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: The search for meaning |
title_sort | spirituality, dimensional autism, and schizotypal traits: the search for meaning |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407781/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30849096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213456 |
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