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Abstract
Purpose: To investigate whether social support is protective for psychotic experiences similarly among poly-victimised adolescent girls and boys.
Methods: We utilised data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative sample of 2,232 UK-born twins. Participants were privately interviewed at age 18 about victimisation, psychotic experiences, and social support during adolescence.
Results: Perceived social support (overall and from friends) was found to be protective against psychotic experiences amongst poly-victimised adolescent girls, but not boys. Though boys were similarly protected by family support.
Conclusions: Social support-focused interventions targeting psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents may be more effective for girls.
Methods: We utilised data from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally-representative sample of 2,232 UK-born twins. Participants were privately interviewed at age 18 about victimisation, psychotic experiences, and social support during adolescence.
Results: Perceived social support (overall and from friends) was found to be protective against psychotic experiences amongst poly-victimised adolescent girls, but not boys. Though boys were similarly protected by family support.
Conclusions: Social support-focused interventions targeting psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents may be more effective for girls.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1413–1417 |
| Journal | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Early online date | 25 Sept 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
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Correction to: Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents (Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, (2018), 10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6)
Crush, E., Arseneault, L. & Fisher, H. L., 1 Jan 2018, (Accepted/In press) In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review