title: Insight and hospital adjustment.
abstract: The relationship between insight and adjustment in schizophrenics was examined. Subjects who scored higher on a paper-and-pencil insight test were rated by hospital staff as better adjusted behaviourally but described themselves as more psychologically distressed than presumably less insightful subjects. Results were discussed in relation to the notion that insight in schizophrenics may intensify subjective distress while conducing to behavioural adaptation.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior