The relationships among perceived criticism, family contact, and consumer clinical and psychosocial functioning for African-American consumers with schizophrenia.
This study examined whether Perceived Criticism (PC) was related to community functioning in a sample of African-American consumers with schizophrenia. The study tested assumptions from the Expressed Emotion literature that were based primarily on samples of white consumers. The study found that PC affected psychiatric symptomatology but not psychosocial functioning. Greater family contact was strongly related to better psychosocial functioning. Findings suggested that the nature and impact of contact between consumer and family for this sample of African-Americans appears different from what has been found in white, middle-class samples.
College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. guada.1@osu.edu
Joseph
J
Guada
John S
JS
Brekke
Reta
R
Floyd
Jack
J
Barbour
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011287:Prejudice; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000208:ethnology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept