[Features of the self-structure and source monitoring disorders in people with schizophrenia].
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to explore relationships between self-structure and source monitoring in people with schizophrenia.


METHODS
Forty-one outpatients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenic disorders participated in the study. Subjects were asked to select personality trait words from a checklist that described themselves, themselves as they were five years ago, and what most people are like. They also performed a source monitoring task and were assessed on current psychiatric symptoms.


RESULTS
Patients who lacked a sense of continuity over time tended to attribute self-generated items to an external source. Subjects who had a less clearly defined self-structure and whose self-representation was less differentiated from others-representation tended to falsely attribute items to themselves.


CONCLUSIONS
The basic features of self-structure were significantly related to some problems in discrimination of self-generated stimuli in the source monitoring task.
Nieznański
Marek
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Katedry Psychologii Ogólnej Instytutu Psychologii, Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie.
D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012648:Self Care; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires