Self-reported empathic abilities in schizophrenia

Montag, Christiane; Heinz, Andreas; Kunz, Dieter; Gallinat, Jürgen

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2007.01.024

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“…If the QCAE is assessing personal distress to some degree, that may account for the heightened scores in the schizophrenia group. However, it is possible factors other than the scale itself impacted these results, as the IRI-Empathic Concern subscale also produced results in the opposite direction for some studies in the meta-analysis (though these effects tended to be small; Brown et al, 2016;Corbera et al, 2014;Fischer-Shofty et al, 2013;Matsumoto et al, 2015;McCormick et al, 2012;Montag et al, 2007;Thirioux et al, 2014). Future work should investigate the QCAE in more depth to better understand potential nuances in construct definitions and performance in samples with schizophrenia.…”

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Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

Bonfils

Lysaker²,

Minor

et al. 2016

Schizophrenia Research

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

Bonfils

Lysaker²,

Minor

et al. 2016

Schizophrenia Research

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“…An experiment which investigates both aspects of social cognition in a more naturalistic setup involving interaction with another agent might be needed to gain more insight into the relationship between the sense of agency and mentalizing (Davis, 1996). Support for this idea can be found in studies of self-rated mentalizing abilities in schizophrenia (Montag et al, 2007, Derntl, et al, 2009, Haker and Rössler, 2009), where patients with schizophrenia indicate low levels of mentalizing but high levels of personal distress compared to healthy controls, which indicates a relationship between self-other distinction and mentalizing. However, our agency task was based on previously used paradigms (e.g.…”

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Sense of agency and mentalizing: Dissociation of subdomains of social cognition in patients with schizophrenia

Schimansky

David

Rössler

et al. 2010

Psychiatry Research

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The sense of agency, i.e., the sense that "I am the one who is causing an action", and mentalizing, the ability to understand the mental states of other individuals, are key domains of social cognition. It has been hypothesized that an intact sense of agency is an important precondition for higher-level mentalizing abilities. A substantial body of evidence shows that both processes rely on similar brain areas and are severely impaired in schizophrenia, suggesting a close link between agency and mentalizing. Yet this relationship has not been explicitly tested. We investigated 40 individuals with schizophrenia and 40 healthy controls on an agency and mentalizing task. On the agency task, participants carried out simple mouse movements and judged the partially manipulated visual feedback as either self-or other-generated. On the mentalizing task, participants inferred mental states from pictures that depicted others' eyes ("Reading the mind in the eyes test"). Neuropsychological, psychopathological and social functioning levels were also evaluated. Both sense of agency and mentalizing were impaired in schizophrenia patients compared to healthy controls. However, testing for a relationship revealed no significant correlations between the two processes, either in the schizophrenia or the control group. The present findings demonstrate a dissociation of agency and mentalizing deficits in schizophrenia, suggesting that the multifaceted construct of social cognition consists of independent subdomains in healthy and psychiatrically ill individuals. AbstractThe sense of agency, i.e., the sense that "I am the one who is causing an action", and mentalizing, the ability to understand the mental states of other individuals, are key domains of social cognition. It has been hypothesized that an intact sense of agency is an important precondition for higher-level mentalizing abilities. A substantial body of evidence shows that both processes rely on similar brain areas and are severely impaired in schizophrenia, suggesting a close link between agency andmentalizing. Yet this relationship has not been explicitly tested. We investigated 40 individuals with schizophrenia and 40 healthy controls on an agency and mentalizing task. On the agency task, participants carried out simple mouse movements and judged the partially manipulated visual feedback as either self or other generated. On the mentalizing task, participants inferred mental states from pictures that depicted others' eyes ("Reading the Mind in the Eyes test"). Neuropsychological, psychopathological and social functioning levels were also evaluated.Both sense of agency and mentalizing were impaired in schizophrenics compared to healthy controls.However, testing for a relationship revealed no significant correlations between the two processes, either in the schizophrenia or the control group.The present findings demonstrate a dissociation of agency and mentalizing deficits in schizophrenia,suggesting that the multifaceted construct of social cognition consists of independ...

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“…Experience sharing is the tendency to take on, resonate with, or ''share'' the emotions of others, and it is often tied to a mechanism known as ''neural resonance.'' 10 Several neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, 13,20,21 autism spectrum disorders, 11,[22][23][24][25] psychopathy, 26 brain injury, 27 and frontotemporal lobe degeneration, 28 feature different subprocesses of empathy deficits. 13 Accordingly, assessment of the recognition and processing of emotion in individuals with OCD would provide a more comprehensive evaluation of these subjects and could explain many social and interpersonal aspects of their disease.…”

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Two systems for empathy in obsessive-compulsive disorder: mentalizing and experience sharing

Pino

Berardis²,

Mariano

et al. 2016

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objective: To investigate empathic abilities in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compared to control subjects. OCD is characterized by persistent obsessions and compulsions. Previous studies have proposed specific emotion recognition deficits in patients with OCD. The ability to recognize emotion is part of the broad construct of empathy that incorporates mentalizing and experience-sharing dimensions. Methods: Twenty-four subjects with a diagnosis of OCD and 23 control subjects underwent empathic measures. Results: Patients with OCD compared to control subjects showed deficits in all mentalizing measures. They were incapable of understanding the mental and emotional states of other people. On the other hand, in the sharing experience measures, the OCD group was able to empathize with the emotional experience of other people when they expressed emotions with positive valence, but were not able to do when the emotional valence was negative. Conclusion: Our results suggest that patients with OCD show a difficulty in mentalizing ability, whereas the deficit in sharing ability is specific for the negative emotional valence.

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Self-reported empathic abilities in schizophrenia

Cited by 160 publications

References 42 publications

Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

Affective empathy in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis

Sense of agency and mentalizing: Dissociation of subdomains of social cognition in patients with schizophrenia

Two systems for empathy in obsessive-compulsive disorder: mentalizing and experience sharing

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