BROWN ET AL.SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SCHIZOTYPY THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL ANXIETY AND SOCIAL ANHEDONIA TO PSYCHOMETRICALLY IDENTIFIED SCHIZOTYPY

Schizotypy and schizophrenia involve social disinterest (anhedonia) and social anxiety. To clarify the role of social dysfunction in schizotypy, this study examined the relationship of social anxiety and social anhedonia in 364 young adults. As hy-pothesized, there was a moderate association between these constructs, which di-minished after partialing out positive schizotypy. A series of CFAs found that a three–factor solution with positive schizotypy, negative schizotypy, and social anxiety factors provided the best fit for the data. Social anxiety is more strongly as-sociated with positive schizotypy than negative schizotypy. A model in which so-cial anxiety and anhedonia formed a general social dysfunction factor did not provide adequate fit, suggesting that social anhedonia and social anxiety are separate constructs with different relationships to schizotypy. One of the central themes identified in the study of the schizophre-nia–spectrum disorders is the presence of social deficits in those di