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Narrating emotional events in schizophrenia

Gruber, June, Kring, Ann M.·2008·Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Abstract

Research has indicated that schizophrenia patients report similar amounts of experienced emotion in response to emotional material compared with nonpatients. However, less is known about how schizophrenia patients describe and make sense of their emotional life events. We adopted a narrative approach to investigate schizophrenia patients' renderings of their emotional life experiences. In Study 1, patients' (n=42) positive and negative narratives were similarly personal, tellable, engaged, and appropriate. However, negative narratives were less grammatically clear than positive narratives, and positive narratives were more likely to involve other people than negative narratives. In Study 2, emotional (positive and negative) narratives were less tellable and detached, yet more linear and social compared with neutral narratives for both schizophrenia patients (n=24) and healthy controls (n=19). However, patients' narratives about emotional life events were less appropriate to context and less linear, and patients' narratives, whether emotional or not, were less tellable and more detached compared with controls' narratives. Although schizophrenia patients are capable of recounting life events that trigger different emotions, the telling of these life events is fraught with difficulty.

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Authors
Gruber, J., & Kring, A. M.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Published
2008-08
Volume
117
Issue
3
Pages
520-533
ISSN
  • 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1846
OpenAlex
W2086054016
Cited by
48
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 19 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
1.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
Keywords
schizophrenia, narrative structure, tellability, narrative engagement, positive and negative emotions, narrative linearity
MeSH terms
Adult, Affect, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Schizophrenia, Severity of Illness Index, Narration, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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