title: Psychotic-like experiences in the adolescent general population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The main purpose of this study was to analyze the distribution of psychotic-like experiences in nonclinical adolescents. Likewise, we studied in depth the role of gender and age in phenotypal expression of these symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 1438 adolescents entered the study, 691 (48.1%) were men, with a mean age of 15.9 years (SD = 1.2).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results indicated that attenuated psychotic symptoms are a very common phenomenon in this age group, since 43% of the sample reported symptoms belonging to magical thinking, ideas of reference, and/or delusion or hallucination experiences, and 8.9% reported 4 or more psychotic-like experiences. Statistical significant differences were found in ideas of reference and paranoid ideation between genders, but not among age groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results coincide with those found in previous studies and have clear implications for a better understanding of these psychological phenomena in the framework of developmental psychopathology, and for the implementation of early detection and prevention programs in the population sector.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Universidad de Oviedo, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental CIBERSAM. efonseca@cop.es
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fonseca-Pedrero
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Santarén-Rosell
authors.forename: Sserafin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lemos-Giráldez
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paino
authors.forename: Susana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sierra-Baigrie
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Muñiz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires