Can schizotypy be extracted from the natural language

An extensive search for schizotypy descriptors in the lexicon of Serbian language was conducted. One hundred and fiftysix candidate terms were found and transformed into questionnaire items. Those items were administrated to the sample of 410 participants (67% females, mean age 22.2 years, SD = 4.46), together with the existing measures of schizotypy traits and basic personality traits (HEXACO personality framework). Parallel analysis, performed on the results of exploratory principal component analysis, suggested that the optimal representation of the latent space of the schizotypy descriptors is constituted of ten dimensions. They were rotated in the promax position and interpreted as: Depressiveness, Oddity, Derangement, Magical Thinking, Hyperemotionality, Social Anhedonia, Mania, Daydreaming, Forgetfulness and Odd Speech. All content of the components was validated by significant positive correlations with existing schizotypy measures, and by irreducibility of schizotypy to basic personality traits. Conceptual differences between the present and similar schizotypy models are further discussed.