Are relational style and neuropsychological performance predictors of social attributions in chronic schizophrenia?

Donohoe, Gary; Spoletini, Ilaria; McGlade, Nicola; Behan, Caragh; Hayden, Judy A.; O'Donoghue, Thérèse; Peel, Rosie; Haq, Farhan; Walker, Caroline; O’Callaghan, Eadbhard; Spalletta, Gianfranco; Gill, Michael; Corvin, Aiden

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2007.10.001

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“…Finally, in a cluster analysis of IPSAQ-R scores, a "personalizing" and a "self-blaming" subgroup could be identified, with the former showing slightly more severe persecutory delusions. With regard to a "self-blaming" AS, our results are in striking contrast to previous studies that used the classic IPSAQ and reported a comparable 23 or even more pronounced EB in patients with schizophrenia 5,22 or in patients with persecutory delusions. [16][17][18][19][20] Nevertheless, our results are in line with 1 previous study that used the classic IPSAQ and reported a self-blaming AS in patients with persecutory delusions.…”

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“…11 Studies that compared patients with schizophrenia and controls found a more pronounced EB but an equivalent level of PB in patients 5,22 or no differences between patients and controls. 23 Even in a recent meta-analysis, neither a pronounced EB nor a pronounced PB could be identified in patients with schizophrenia (n = 212) in comparison to controls. 24 These inconsistent results could be explained by a number of factors: First, previous studies in patients with persecutory delusions were mostly of small sample size (between 14 and 40 patients:), 6,9 which may have obscured or even exaggerated results with a medium or minor effect size.…”

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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Me? Attributional Style, Depressed Mood, and Persecutory Delusions in Patients With Schizophrenia

Mehl

Landsberg

Schmidt

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Schizophrenia Bulletin

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Theoretical models postulate an important role of attributional style (AS) in the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions and other positive symptoms of schizophrenia. However, current research has gathered conflicting findings. In a cross-sectional design, patients with persistent positive symptoms of schizophrenia (n = 258) and healthy controls (n = 51) completed a revised version of the Internal, Personal and Situational Attributions Questionnaire (IPSAQ-R) and assessments of psychopathology. In comparison to controls, neither patients with schizophrenia in general nor patients with persecutory delusions (n = 142) in particular presented an externalizing and personalizing AS. Rather, both groups showed a "self-blaming" AS and attributed negative events more toward themselves. Persecutory delusions were independently predicted by a personalizing bias for negative events (beta = 0.197, P = .001) and by depression (beta = 0.152, P = .013), but only 5% of the variance in persecutory delusions could be explained. Cluster analysis of IPSAQ-R scores identified a "personalizing" (n = 70) and a "self-blaming" subgroup (n = 188), with the former showing slightly more pronounced persecutory delusions (P = .021). Results indicate that patients with schizophrenia and patients with persecutory delusions both mostly blamed themselves for negative events. Nevertheless, still a subgroup of patients could be identified who presented a more pronounced personalizing bias and more severe persecutory delusions. Thus, AS in patients with schizophrenia might be less stable but more determined by individual and situational characteristics that need further elucidation.Key words: schizophrenia/persecutory delusions/ positive symptoms/attributional style/depression/ negative emotions Attributional style (AS) is defined as the way of inferring a causal explanation for important life events, 1,2 either toward oneself (internal), toward other persons (personal), or toward circumstances or fate (situational). For example, if "a friend starts a fight with me," it is possible to attribute this event to internal factors ("I am a bad person"), to personal factors ("He is annoyed quite quickly"), or to situational factors ("We lived in different parts of the country").Analysis of AS in schizophrenia derived from the clinical insight that persecutory delusions can be viewed as an excessive tendency to attribute negative events toward other persons. Initial studies used the Attributional Style Questionnaire (ASQ), 3 an instrument originally developed for the assessment of AS in depression. These studies found that patients with persecutory delusions showed more internal attributions for positive events and less internal attributions for negative events, compared with controls. This AS has been termed self-serving bias or externalizing bias (EB). [4][5][6] Because the ASQ showed quite

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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Me? Attributional Style, Depressed Mood, and Persecutory Delusions in Patients With Schizophrenia

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Landsberg

Schmidt

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Schizophrenia Bulletin

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“…This separation allows for individual analysis of the component processes implicated in set-shifting ability. Previous studies have consistently found evidence for substantial impairments in set-shifting ability in individuals with chronic schizophrenia using the IED task [32,[34][35][36][37]. In fact, the degree of impairment was found to be greater than that of individuals with frontal lobe lesions [34].…”

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Cognitive intervention in early psychosis — preserving abilities versus remediating deficits

Pantelis

Wannan

Bartholomeusz

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Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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“…the ability to get 'the big picture' of the social game (e.g. to infer 'precipitating events' or to correctly appreciate contextually relevant information), in Attributional Style [95,96] and Social Knowledge [97,98] . Also, the ToM mechanism has been considered a preeminent feature of the entire Social Cognition constructs [99][100][101][102] and has been invoked to mirror all empathic abilities in humans [103,104] .…”

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What Is It like to Be a Person with Schizophrenia in the Social World? A First-Person Perspective Study on Schizophrenic Dissociality – Part 1: State of the Art

Stanghellini

Ballerini

2011

Psychopathology

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This is a critical review of research on the subjective experience of social dysfunction in persons with schizophrenia. Studies from the phenomenological and cognitive paradigms are examined, and significant outcomes and shortcomings are pointed out. Clinical phenomenologists have mainly interpreted schizophrenic dissociality as an anomaly of prereflexive attunement. The main shortcoming of phenomenological research is that it lacks adequate methodology to collect reliable data since most studies are based on the analysis of a few typical cases. Cognitivism has reliably documented disorders of social functioning in large-scale experimental studies. The main shortcoming of most cognitive paradigms is that they do not properly investigate the personal level of experience in real-world functioning. We conclude that there is a need to reliably collect data through quantitative as well as qualitative methodology as established and accepted by the scientific community in the area of schizophrenic dissociality, reflecting the subjective experiences of people with schizophrenia in the real world.

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Are relational style and neuropsychological performance predictors of social attributions in chronic schizophrenia?

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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Me? Attributional Style, Depressed Mood, and Persecutory Delusions in Patients With Schizophrenia

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Me? Attributional Style, Depressed Mood, and Persecutory Delusions in Patients With Schizophrenia

Cognitive intervention in early psychosis — preserving abilities versus remediating deficits

What Is It like to Be a Person with Schizophrenia in the Social World? A First-Person Perspective Study on Schizophrenic Dissociality – Part 1: State of the Art

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