The Functional Significance of Affect Recognition, Neurocognition, and Clinical Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Huang, Charles Lung-Cheng; Hsiao, Sigmund

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“…Although these results have been obtained from a community sample, and may not be directly compared with findings from other such studies, it is essential to continue investigating the relation between PA and social functioning using the PANAS. This needs to be explored in more detail, as noted by a number of researchers [ 24 ], given that it may be quite useful for clinical samples [ 35 ].…”

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Positive and negative affect as predictors of social functioning in Spanish children

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The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between affect in its two commonly used theoretical categories, positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA), and social functioning dimensions (school performance, family relationships, peer relationships and home duties/self-care). The sample comprised 390 students of primary education aged 8–11 years (M = 9.39; SD = 1.15). The short-form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for children (PANAS-C-SF) and the Child and Adolescent Social Adaptive Functioning Scale (CASAFS) were used. Student’s t tests indicated that those reporting high levels on all the social functioning dimensions also reported significantly higher levels of PA than peers who reported low levels; by contrast, students reporting high levels of social functioning reported significantly lower levels of NA than peers who reported low levels. Similarly, logistic regression analyses showed that an increase in PA increased probability of high levels of social functioning, and that an increase in NA decreased the probability of presenting high levels of social functioning dimensions, with the exception of school performance. These results expand the PA and NA relationship with social functioning reported in adults to Spanish children, which is potentially of interest in the fields of Education and Psychology.

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“…Schizophrenia is a chronic and serious mental disorder affecting more than 19,776,900 people worldwide [1]. Individuals with schizophrenia often experience challenges at work and/or in their family relationships owing to positive symptoms (e.g., delusions, hallucinations, and disturbed language and behaviors), as well as negative symptoms such as affective flattening, which in turn deteriorate their quality of life [2]. Moreover, the years lived with disability (YLD) for schizophrenia is slowly increasing [1].…”

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Effects of a Short Emotional Management Program on Inpatients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study

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Jo³

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The prevalence of schizophrenia is gradually increasing worldwide. Many patients with schizophrenia have a diminished ability to empathize and to detect their own emotions or those of others, deteriorating their social functioning and their quality of life. Nonetheless, emotional management training may improve patients’ emotion recognition, emotional expression, and negative symptoms. Developing and applying a short but effective program that reflects the current medical environment, in which hospital stays are ever-diminishing, is warranted. This one-group, pretest–posttest, quasi-experimental pilot study aimed to examine the effects of a short emotional management program (EMP-S) on 17 patients with chronic schizophrenia. Participants were patients hospitalized in the National Center for Mental Health in Korea. After the completion of a twice-a-week, eight-session, four-week long EMP-S, participants showed improvements in emotion recognition, emotional expression, and negative symptoms. Our results suggest the applicability and potential effectiveness of the EMP-S, which takes the length of psychiatric hospital stay and the inpatient environment into consideration. To minimize any barriers to social functioning in the post-discharge lives of inpatients with chronic schizophrenia and enhance their social cognition—by improving their emotion recognition, emotional expression, and negative symptoms—we suggest the periodical administration of this EMP-S to these inpatients.

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“…) and are closely related to the patients’ social functioning (Kimhy et al . ) and quality of life (QoL) (Huang & Hsiao ). Patients with schizophrenia have difficulties identifying, describing (Kimhy et al .…”

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Effect of an emotion management programme for patients with schizophrenia: A quasi‐experimental design

Cho

Jang

2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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One of the goals of psychiatric social rehabilitation treatment is to improve patients’ emotion recognition, emotional expression, and empathetic abilities. In this study, we used a quasi‐experimental, nonrandomized design to examine the effect of an emotion management programme on the emotion recognition (emotion attention and emotion clarity), emotional expression (positive expressivity, negative expressivity, and impulse strength), and quality of life (QoL) of a sample of patients with schizophrenia in South Korea. Over eight sessions, we collected data from 56 patients with schizophrenia registered in community mental rehabilitation facilities. After attending the emotion management programme, the emotion recognition, emotional expression, and QoL scores of the experimental group were found to have significantly increased, whereas those of the control group had significantly decreased. Therefore, our findings show that emotion management programmes can be used as nursing interventions to improve the QoL of people with schizophrenia.

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The Functional Significance of Affect Recognition, Neurocognition, and Clinical Symptoms in Schizophrenia

Cited by 9 publications

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Positive and negative affect as predictors of social functioning in Spanish children

Positive and negative affect as predictors of social functioning in Spanish children

Effects of a Short Emotional Management Program on Inpatients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study

Effect of an emotion management programme for patients with schizophrenia: A quasi‐experimental design

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