Hypothesis is “A tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables; a testable prediction or question” (Hockenbury, 2014). Therefore, in this journal article, the hypothesis is the relation between childhood trauma and development of psychosis experiences among adolescences. The childhood trauma especially for this study is associated with cyberbullying. This study is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. The researchers used an experiment and representative study because they collected a specific group by using a special and detail questionnaires but also, predicting if there is a relationship between the trauma and bullying to psychosis disorder (Magaud, 2013). SUBJECTS This experiment study consists of fifty individual who met the Criteria of Prodromal Symptoms (COPS). There are three criteria of COPS (Magaud, 2013): 1. Attenuated Positive Symptom Syndrome (APSS). Characteristic of attenuated positive psychosis symptoms are suspicious, odd believe or magical thinking, unusual perceptual experiences (e.g., the sound seems louder than usual or the noise has special meaning), tangential/circumstantial speech (e.g., the conversation is out of track from the original) (“Early Sign of Psychosis”,2015). 2. Brief Intermittent Positive Syndrome (BIPS). 3. Genetic Risk and Deterioration (GRD). Both APSS and BIPS are based on “duration and severity of attenuated psychotic symptoms; whereas GRD requires either a first-degree relative with a psychotic disorder or the subject having schizotypal personality disorder plus at least a 30% drop in functioning in the past 12 months” (Magaud, 2013). Some exceptions criteria to this project included if participants has prior history of using antipsychotic treatment, recently has diagnosis for current diagnosis of psychosis, IQ less than 70, past or present history of central nervous system disorder, and “lifetime axis I psychotic disorder” (Magaud, 2013). METHODS Prior to experiment, the participants will get an informed consent or assent (for minor). In order to determine the severity of attenuated positive symptoms and prodromal syndrome, the researcher is using the SIPS and the Scale for Assessment of Prodromal symptoms. The participants will get the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short form and answer the questions whether is “Never True”, “Rarely True”, “Sometimes True”, “Often True” or “Very Often True”. Then, the answer will be score and combine to create five clinical sub scores “Emotional, Physical, and Sexual Abuse, Emotional and Physical Neglect” and add to a total score. Cyberbullying is one of the questions whether they had been harassed or bullied via technology or internet. The SIPS is determined by an experienced and trained clinician of mental health disciplines who been exposed …show more content…
However, the researcher admitted that there is a limitation in this study such as the sample is too small, no control group, no specific duration and the frequency on how long the victim exposed to cyberbullying whether is by text, instant messages or Facebook. This is important because persistent cyberbullying could increase emotional impact on mental health. Moreover, the study reports that some type of cyberbullying is less harmful than traditional bullying such as threats and insults, but other forms of cyberbullying could possibly more damaging especially if there are images or videos show. The researchers explain that studying cyberbullying in young people with clinical high risk (CHR) psychosis is new in the field. They believe that CHR individuals are affected by cyberbullying. These individuals are more vulnerable to the cyberbullying especially internet and cellphone, because they lack of friends and social functioning. To the knowledge of the researchers, they suggest that this study needs for further attention using larger samples with longitudinal design to determine better