Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences.
CAPE
- What it measures
- Subclinical psychotic experiences (psychosis proneness) across Positive (20), Negative (14), and Depressive (8) dimensions; frequency + distress
- Length and format
- 42 items. 4-point frequency (never-nearly always) + parallel 4-point distress per item (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs incl. EN, DE, ES, FR, NL, ZH, and many European versions; widely translated
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Stefanis, N.C., et al. (2002). Evidence that three dimensions of psychosis have a distribution in the general population. Psychological Medicine, 32(2), 347-358.
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