title: Deficits in the ability to recognize one's own affects and those of others: associations with neurocognition, symptoms and sexual trauma among persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
abstract: While many with schizophrenia experience deficits in metacognition it is unclear whether those deficits are related to other features of illness. To explore this issue, the current study classified participants with schizophrenia as possessing a deficit in both awareness of their own emotions and those of others (n=30), aware of their own emotions but unaware of the emotions of others (n=50) and aware of their own emotions and of other's emotions (n=17). Groups were compared on assessments of neurocognitive function, symptoms, and history of sexual trauma. ANCOVA controlling for education found that the group unaware of their own emotions and those of others demonstrated poorer verbal memory, processing speed, executive function, less emotional discomfort and higher levels of disorganization symptoms relative to the other groups. The group aware of their own emotions but not those of others had a significantly higher report of childhood sexual abuse.
authors.affiliation: Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. Plysaker@iupui.edu
authors.forename: Paul H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Lysaker
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gumley
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brüne
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vanheule
authors.forename: Kelly D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dimaggio
mesh_terms: D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D056345:Theory of Mind