Predictors of social functioning in patients with higher and lower levels of reduced emotional experience: Social cognition, social competence, and symptom severity

Deficits in social functioning in schizophrenia are primarily predicted by negative symptoms, social cognition deficits, and social skills deficits. Here we examine those predictive variables across variations in the severity of reduced emotional experience. We hypothesized that in patients with high symptom severity, factors such as social cognition would have reduced importance for predicting social outcomes.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - November 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Philip D. Harvey, Elizabeth Deckler, L. Fredrik Jarsksog, David L. Penn, Amy E. Pinkham Source Type: research