title: Relationship between inner dialog and ideas of reference and the mediating role of dissociation.
abstract: Recent lines of research have begun to concentrate on internal dialogue and its relationship to a diversity of psychopathological phenomena present in psychotic disorders. This study was intended as a preliminary exploration of the relationship of internal dialogue, dissociation and ideas of reference. To do this, a sample of 318 students filled in an internal dialogue scale (the VISQ, McCarthy-Jones & Fernyhough), one for dissociation (DES-II, Carlson & Putnam) and another for ideas of reference (REF, Lenzenweger, Bennett & Lilenfeld). The results confirm the hypothesis posed in the sense that internal dialogue was positively associated with dissociation and with ideas of reference. A partial mediation effect of dissociation was also found between inner speech and ideas of reference. Lines of future research this study opens and its possible integration in a model on ideas of reference are discussed.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bellido-Zanin
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain.|Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Perona-Garcelán
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Senín-Calderón
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana María
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: López-Jiménez
authors.affiliation: Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan Francisco
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Testal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013850:Thinking; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Inner speech; dialogic self; dissociation; ideas of reference; psychosis