While contemporary models of psychosis have proposed a number of putative psychological
mechanisms, how these impact on individuals to increase intensity of psychotic experiences …

Several integrated models of psychosis have implicated adverse, stressful contexts and
experiences, and affective and cognitive processes in the onset of psychosis. In these …

Stress-vulnerability models of schizophrenia regard psychosocial stress as an important
factor in the onset and aggravation of psychotic symptoms, but such research in the early …

BackgroundThe stress–vulnerability model of psychosis continues to be influential. The aim
of this study was to compare emotional and symptomatic responses to stress in individuals …

Objective The aim of this study was to assess associations between momentary stress and
both affective and psychotic symptoms in everyday life of individuals at clinical high risk …

Subclinical psychotic experiences at the level of the general population are common,
forming an extended psychosis phenotype with clinical psychosis. Persistence of subclinical …

Initial affective and psychotic reactivity to daily stressors is altered in psychosis, and most
notably in early psychosis. In addition to altered initial stress reactivity, results from studies …

BackgroundIncreased sensitivity and exposure to stress are associated with psychotic
symptoms in schizophrenia and its risk states, but little is known about the co-evolution of …

Psychotic symptoms are exacerbated by stressful life events in schizophrenia patients as a
group. Some individuals appear to be more vulnerable than others in this regard. This study …

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether stress sensitivity mediates the
relationship between traumatic life events and total attenuated positive psychotic symptoms …