Validation of the aberrant salience inventory in a general and clinical Spanish population
Comprehensive Psychiatry August 18, 2022 Juan Francisco Rodríguez Testal, S. Fuentes-Márquez, Cristina Senín‐calderón et al. 5 citations
The Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI) is a tool for measuring a psychological process linked to the onset of psychosis, where ordinary experiences become unusually noticeable or significant. A Spanish version of the ASI was tested in 6178 people, including 4523 adolescents, 1292 adults from the general population, and 363 patients with a mental health condition. The inventory worked similarly for men and women, and for both clinical and nonclinical groups. Scores tended to stabilize around age 19, suggesting a developmental change in motivation-related responses. Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, or bipolar disorder had the highest average scores, supporting the inventory's value for evaluating abnormal motivation in schizophrenia.