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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Psychopathology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1548310
Validation of the Hebrew version of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE-42) in a sample of Israeli Hebrew speakers
Provisionally accepted- 1University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- 2Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
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The Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE-42) is a reliable tool to assess psychotic experiences (PEs) in clinical and non-clinical populations, in research and clinical settings. To investigate cultural differences in PEs and control for pathological behavior in non-clinical groups, we developed a Hebrew version of the CAPE-42 using translation/back-translation method. A total of 359 Hebrew-speaking Israelis participated in an online study comprising the CAPE-42, the Autistic Quotient (AQ), the Center for Epidemiological Study -Depression Scale (CES-D), and the Prodromal Questionnaire -Brief Version (PQ-B). We examined the psychometric properties of the Hebrew CAPE-42-including factor structure, internal consistency, gender invariance, and validity. We also investigated the independent and interaction effects of psychotic and autistic traits on depressive symptoms. Reliability analysis demonstrated very good internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analysis supported the eight-factor model-including depressive, social withdrawing, affective flattening, avolition, bizarre experiences, perceptual abnormalities, persecutory ideation, and magical thinking. Demonstrating its predictive and convergent validity, we found significant correlations with the CES-D and the PQ-B. The predictive model showed that both psychotic and autistic traits are independent predictors of depressive symptoms, without interacting. The Hebrew CAPE-42 offers a valuable instrument for investigating PEs in the Hebrew-speaking population and facilitates crosscultural studies.
Keywords: CAPE-42, Cross-validation, Hebrew, psychometric properties, psychosis
Received: 19 Dec 2024; Accepted: 16 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Fazioli, Abu-Akel, Hadad and Yashar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Laurina Fazioli, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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