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Depression predicts self assessment of social function in both patients with schizophrenia and healthy people
Oliveri, Lisa N. Awerbuch, Adam W. Jarskog, L. Fredrik Penn, David L. Pinkham, Amy Harvey, Philip D.
Oliveri, Lisa N.
Awerbuch, Adam W.
Jarskog, L. Fredrik
Penn, David L.
Pinkham, Amy
Harvey, Philip D.
Abstract
Background
Impairments in social functioning are central to Schizophrenia (SCZ). Patients with SCZ have challenges in the ability to evaluate their functioning. A correlate of self-assessments in SCZ is depression, wherein negligible depression predicts overestimation. Healthy individuals misestimate their functioning, but mild dysthymia predicts accuracy. We examined depression, gender, and schizophrenia as predictors of self-reported everyday functioning.
Methods
218 people with SCZ and 154 healthy controls self-reported their social functioning. They self-reported their depression with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and their social cognitive ability on the Observable Social Cognition Rating Scale (OSCARS).
Results
64% of subjects were male. Schizophrenia patients reported more depression, poorer social functioning, and worse social cognition. Linear regression analyses revealed significant correlations between self-reported social functioning and BDI scores, which also predicted self-reported social cognition. There was no significant effect of sex on self-reports of social functioning or social cognition. Finally, when BDI and OSCARS were directly compared to diagnosis and sex for prediction of self-reported social functioning, there was no impact of diagnosis or sex.
Implications
Self-reported interpersonal functioning is determined by current depression. Both healthy people and people with schizophrenia index their social functioning and their social cognitive by their level of depression.
Keywords
schizophrenia, depression, self assessment, social cognition, social functioning
Date
2020
Type
Journal article
Journal
Psychiatry Research
Book
Volume
284
Issue
Page Range
1-5
Article Number
Article 112681
ACU Department
School of Behavioural and Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Open Access Status
Published as green open access
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File Access
Controlled
Open
Open