Cognitive and emotional empathy in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A replication and extension study

Berger, Philipp; Bitsch, Florian; Jakobi, Babette; Nagels, Arne; Straube, Benjamin; Falkenberg, Irina

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2019.04.015

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“…Lehmann et al (2014) have provided a more detailed characterization of schizophrenic patients' defective understanding of others' emotions (i.e., affective mentalizing), associated with a preserved ability to share or feel their emotional states (i.e., empathy). The latter finding is further supported by recent evidence of preserved emotional empathy in self‐reported and behavioral measurements in schizophrenic patients (Berger et al, 2019). Overall, the present findings appear to highlight a possible neural basis of a specific deficit in mentalizing, with no clear evidence of abnormal empathic processing in schizophrenic patients.…”

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confidence: 76%

Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

Arioli

Cattaneo

Ricciardi

et al. 2021

Human Brain Mapping

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While the discussion on the foundations of social understanding mainly revolves around the notions of empathy, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing, their degree of overlap versus specificity is still unclear. We took a meta‐analytic approach to unveil the neural bases of cognitive mentalizing, affective mentalizing, and empathy, both in healthy individuals and pathological conditions characterized by social deficits such as schizophrenia and autism. We observed partially overlapping networks for cognitive and affective mentalizing in the medial prefrontal, posterior cingulate, and lateral temporal cortex, while empathy mainly engaged fronto‐insular, somatosensory, and anterior cingulate cortex. Adjacent process‐specific regions in the posterior lateral temporal, ventrolateral, and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex might underpin a transition from abstract representations of cognitive mental states detached from sensory facets to emotionally‐charged representations of affective mental states. Altered mentalizing‐related activity involved distinct sectors of the posterior lateral temporal cortex in schizophrenia and autism, while only the latter group displayed abnormal empathy related activity in the amygdala. These data might inform the design of rehabilitative treatments for social cognitive deficits.

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confidence: 76%

Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

Arioli

Cattaneo

Ricciardi

et al. 2021

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“…The next aspect is cognitive, which is related to the ability to communicate and focus when interacting (Berger et al, 2019). Previous research conducted by Stefanopoulou et al (2009), states that persons with schizophrenia have memory delay, difficulty focusing during a discussion, and experience impaired verbal responses (Stefanopoulou et al, 2009).…”

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Mindfulness-based mobile applications for social interaction in people with schizophrenia

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Sari²,

Dwidiyanti³

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People with schizophrenia experience limited social interaction because of affective, cognitive, and psychomotor alterations. The problem of interaction requires intervention to increase their social interaction. There is a need for a system that can monitor the development of the interactive social abilities of people with schizophrenia. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of mindfulness therapy on the social interaction of people with schizophrenia using a mobile application (SI-DESIS). Fifty-two people with schizophrenia who met the criteria were divided into an intervention group and a control group. The mindfulness therapy was carried out in six sessions for three weeks. Data were collected using pre-test and post-test scores with the Social Interaction Questionnaire and Behavior Observation Sheet. The results showed an increase in the level of social interaction for participants who were given the intervention (U = 12,000, p < 0.05). The rise of social interaction emphasized the stages of mindfulness therapy: the comfort stage and the independently healthy target stage. Mindfulness-based mobile applications are useful to enhance the social interactions of people with schizophrenia.

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“…In order to measure empathy, this study used the 20-item Basic Empathy Scale, which is a self-report tool that was originally developed by Jolliffe and Farrington [28], and later translated into Korean, revised, and improved by Kang and Lee [29]. Responses are made on a five-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree), and the scale comprises nine items assessing the cognitive element (3,6,9,10,12,14,16,19,20) and 11 items assessing the emotional element (1,2,4,5,7,8,11,13,15,17,18). In Lee's [30] study of people with schizophrenia, the Cronbach's alpha reliability was 0.80.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Social functioning deficits, which are common in people with schizophrenia, negatively affect many aspects of everyday life, including social relationships, occupational achievements, and independent living. Furthermore, Berger et al [3] found that people with schizophrenia have poor social cognitive abilities, preventing them from perceiving the emotions and understanding the mental states of others.…”

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Effects of Psychotic Symptoms and Social Cognition on Job Retention in Patients with Schizophrenia in Korea

Han

Jun

2020

IJERPH

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This research examined the relationship between psychotic symptoms, social cognition, and job retention among people with schizophrenia in Korea. Participants (158 people with schizophrenia from 15 mental health institutions) were divided into two groups: those with a job retention period of less than six months (n = 75), and those with a job retention period of six months or more (n = 83). Participants completed a survey packet containing the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), Global Assessment of Function (GAF) Scale, Interpersonal Relationship Functioning Assessment Scale, Basic Empathy Scale, Hinting Task, and Ambiguous Intention Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ), and provided their job retention status. We used binomial logistic regression analysis to examine whether job retention was affected by participants’ demographic, clinical, and vocational characteristics, as well as the three components of social cognition, i.e., theory of mind, empathy, and attribution style. Results showed that theory of mind (ToM), attribution style, and psychotic symptoms explained 52.7% of the variance in job retention. A higher theory of mind means a higher ability to grasp the intentions of others. The higher theory of mind, the lesser attribution style, and the lesser psychotic symptoms were related to a longer period of job retention.

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Cognitive and emotional empathy in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A replication and extension study

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

Overlapping and specific neural correlates for empathizing, affective mentalizing, and cognitive mentalizing: A coordinate‐based meta‐analytic study

Mindfulness-based mobile applications for social interaction in people with schizophrenia

Effects of Psychotic Symptoms and Social Cognition on Job Retention in Patients with Schizophrenia in Korea

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