Emotion Regulation in Trait Schizotypy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Trait Schizotypy
• Interventions: Behavioral: instruction to suppress; Behavioral: instruction to reappraise; Behavioral: control

• Registration Number: NCT03694574
• Lead Sponsor: Danube University Krems

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2017-05-31
• Study Completion: 2017-09-30
• Status Verified: 2018-10
• Study First Submitted: 2018-10-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-10-01
• Study First Posted: 2018-10-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-10-05
• Last Update Posted: 2018-10-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 131

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
High schizotypy	control	Schizotypy score ≥ 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)
Low schizotypy	control	Schizotypy score \< 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)
Low schizotypy	instruction to suppress	Schizotypy score \< 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)
Low schizotypy	instruction to reappraise	Schizotypy score \< 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)
High schizotypy	instruction to reappraise	Schizotypy score ≥ 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)
High schizotypy	instruction to suppress	Schizotypy score ≥ 14 measured by the German Version of Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (Klein, Andresen, \& Jahn, 1997)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
state negative emotions	3 minutes	measured by the German Version of Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Krohne, Egloff, Kohlmann, \& Tausch, 1996)
state anger	3 minutes	measured by the German version of State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (Schwenkmetzger, Hodapp, \& Spielberger, 1992)
aggressive behavior	3 minutes	measured by the amount of chili measured by the Hot Sauce Paradigm (Lieberman, Solomon, Greenberg, \& McGregor, 1999)
state positive emotions	3 minutes	measured by the German Version of Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Krohne, Egloff, Kohlmann, \& Tausch, 1996)