This work is devoted to the study and modern assessment of a certain spectrum of social cognitions – a hostile attributive style in the Belarusian population, by assessing the psychometric indicators of the scale Ambiguous Intention Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ), R.Combs (2007), persons suffer from schizophrenia. The study involved 30 patients undergoing in-patient treatment in the Gomel Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital with diagnoses of schizophrenia and acute polymorphic psychotic disorders of the schizophrenic spectrum with aggressive tendencies and without. Comparison with the reference psychometric tools of the scale AIHQ on the Belarusian population showed its high reliability and convergent validity. Differences in the functioning of the hostile attributive style in individuals with schizophrenia with hostility and without behavioral disorders were revealed.
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