Using case register data, the overall marital rate among 5158 patients with mental illness was found to be comparable to the general population. The proportion of those ever married was markedly reduced in the schizophrenic group relative to those with a manic or neurotic illness. Men with schizophrenia had a particularly low rate of marriage. The overall marital fertility of the 3 groups was comparable to each other and appeared to be higher than that in the general population. In the schizophrenic group only, married men, particularly those with a family history of mental disorder, produced more children than married women. Men might represent a more fertile group of schizophrenic patients with some biological advantage of increased fecundity, which may help to compensate for negative selection pressures.
35 adults diagnosed with schizophrenia provided samples of narrative and conversational discourse and completed a criterion-referenced test of pragmatic language ability. There was a significant relationship between performance on pragmatic language tasks and perceived over-all functioning of schizophrenic subjects as measured by psychological assessment. Subjects who were perceived as functioning at low levels on the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale from the Diagnostic and 1994 Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders had low self-disclosure in conversation, produced less information in narratives, and produced more nonscorable items on a criterion-referenced test of pragmatic language. Appropriateness of speech suprasegmentals was also related to patients' perceived effectiveness as communicators as well as to their perceived over-all functioning as measured by the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale.
35 adults diagnosed with schizophrenia provided samples of narrative and conversational discourse and completed a criterion-referenced test of pragmatic language ability. There was a significant relationship between performance on pragmatic language tasks and perceived over-all functioning of schizophrenic subjects as measured by psychological assessment. Subjects who were perceived as functioning at low levels on the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale from the Diagnostic and 1994 Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders had low self-disclosure in conversation, produced less information in narratives, and produced more nonscorable items on a criterion-referenced test of pragmatic language. Appropriateness of speech suprasegmentals was also related to patients' perceived effectiveness as communicators as well as to their perceived over-all functioning as measured by the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale.
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