Dissociation and social cognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorder
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While there is emerging evidence that dissociation is linked with trauma history and possibly symptoms in schizophrenia, it remains unclear whether dissociation represents a symptom dimensions in its own right in schizophrenia and as such is uniquely related to other features of illness. To explore this issue the current study sought to find out whether dissociation was uniquely related to an index of social cognition closely linked to social functioning, namely affect recognition. We hypothesized that dissociation would be linked with affect recognition because symptoms of dissociation may uniquely disrupt processes which are expected to be needed for correctly recognizing emotions. The sample contained 49 participants diagnosed with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder who were in a non-acute phase of disorder. Participants were concurrently administered the Bell-Lysaker Emotion Recognition Task, the Dissociative Experiences Scale, the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist and the Positive and Negative Symptoms Scale. Stepwise linear regression analyses were performed in which dissociative symptoms were forced to enter after the other symptoms in order to predict deficits in affect recognition. These analyses revealed that greater levels of dissociative symptoms predicted poorer recognition of negative emotions over and above that of positive, negative, cognitive and PTSD symptoms. Results are consistent with the possibility that dissociation represents a unique dimension o f psychopathology in schizophrenia which may be linked to function.
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These findings are similar to those reported among individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.
“These findings are similar to those reported among individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (Renard et al., 2012).”
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Higher levels of dissociation are related to worse performance on measures of prosody, theory of mind, and emotion recognition.
“higher levels of dissociation have been related to worse performance on measures of prosody (Nazarov et al., 2015), theory of mind (Nazarov et al., 2014), and emotion recognition (Renard et al., 2012).”
From A review of the relation between dissociation, memory, executive functioning and social cognition in military members and civilians with neuropsychiatric conditions (2016) · cites this paper as Renard et al., 2012
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- Authors
- Renard, S. B., Pijnenborg, M., & Lysaker, P. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Groningen (NL)
- Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center (US)
- Venue
- Schizophrenia Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 1-3
- Pages
- 219-223
- ISSN
- 0920-9964 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2102594415
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 2.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.rug.nl
- Licence
- Locations
- Schizophrenia Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Keywords
- dissociation, schizophrenia spectrum disorders
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cognition Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Female, Hospitals, Veterans, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Predictive Value of Tests, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Severity of Illness Index, Social Behavior, Veterans, Mood Disorders, Stress Disorders, Traumatic
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