Improving measurement of attributional style in schizophrenia; A psychometric evaluation of the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ)

Buck, Benjamin; Iwanski, Colin; Healey, Kristin M.; Green, Michael F.; Horan, William P.; Kern, Robert S.; Lee, Jung‐Hee; Marder, Stephen R.; Reise, Steven P.; Penn, David L.

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.01.004

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“…Notably, however, one subscale of the AIHQ, the BS, was strong on all metrics except group differences. Prior research indicates this subscale of the AIHQ demonstrates adequate psychometric properties, including acceptable internal consistency and test-retest reliability estimates; distinguishes patients from controls; displays significant relationships to functional outcome, and exhibits associations with relevant clinical variables in chronic samples (e.g., hostility and suspiciousness)(Buck et al, 2017, in press). The AIHQ-BS may therefore benefit from further examination and use; however it will be important to determine if it can be used independently of the rest of the measure.…”

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“…Remaining measures, including: Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire ( AIHQ ; Combs et al, 2007), Relationships Across Domains ( RAD ; Sergi et al, 2009), and Trustworthiness Task ( Trust ; Adolphs, Tranel, & Damasio, 1998), demonstrated weaker characteristics and were deemed inadequate for use in clinical trials targeting social cognition (Pinkham et al, 2015), although subsequent findings support continued development and use of the AIHQ Blame Score (Buck et al, 2017, in press).…”

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Social cognition psychometric evaluation (SCOPE) in people with early psychosis: A preliminary study

Ludwig

Pinkham

Harvey

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Schizophrenia Research

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Social cognition is an important outcome in schizophrenia research. Unfortunately, there has been a lack of consensus regarding which measures of social cognition best capture this domain of functioning. The Social Cognition Psychometric Evaluation (SCOPE) study was developed to address the need for a battery of measures that have sound psychometric properties and can be implemented in clinical trials for individuals with chronic schizophrenia. The current study expands upon the SCOPE study by examining the psychometric properties of the eight candidate measures administered to individuals early in the course of psychosis. Thirty-eight stable outpatients with first episode psychosis and thirty-nine healthy controls completed the battery at baseline and one-month follow-up assessments. The SCOPE battery was evaluated on a collection of psychometric properties, including: (1) Reliability – including test-retest and internal consistency, (2) Between group differences, (3) Utility as a repeated measure, (4) Relationship to social and occupational functioning, (5) Incremental validity – variance in functioning beyond neurocognition, and (6) Feasibility – including practicality of administration and tolerability. Social cognition accounted for substantially more variance in functional outcome than neurocognition. Only one measure, the Hinting task, displayed adequate psychometric properties to be recommended for use in clinical research with first episode psychosis. The remaining candidate measures would require modifications before implementation or cannot be recommended for use in clinical research with first episode psychosis.

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Social cognition psychometric evaluation (SCOPE) in people with early psychosis: A preliminary study

Ludwig

Pinkham

Harvey

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Schizophrenia Research

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“…First, PI appears fueled by a negative affective experience, like negative affect (Ben-Zeev, Ellington, Swendsen, & Granholm, 2011), anomalous sensory experiences (Freeman, Garety, Kuipers, Fowler, & Bebbington, 2002;Morrison, 2001), negative self-beliefs (Thewissen, Bentall, Lecomte, van Os, & Myin-Germeys, 2008;Thewissen et al, 2011), or worry (Startup, Freeman, & Garety, 2007). Second, these beliefs are proposed to be maintained through biased cognitive processing, including the tendency to "jump to conclusions" (Dudley, Taylor, Wickham, & Hutton, 2016), to reject disconfirming evidence (Sanford & Woodward, 2017), to use a more intuitive reasoning style (Freeman, Lister, & Evans, 2014), and have a bias to see others' ambiguous actions as the result of hostile intentional action (Buck et al, 2017).…”

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Dynamic relationships between emotional distress, persecutory ideation, and metacognition in schizophrenia

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Objective Determine whether metacognitive capacity (i.e., a range of abilities that involve recognition, reflection, and integration of mental states) influences the relationships between emotional distress and persecutory ideation (PI). Methods The present study examined emotional distress, metacognition and PI in a sample (n = 337) of individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and clinician‐rated PI. Pearson and partial correlations were used to examine relationships between variables, as well as between‐subjects analysis of variances to compare groups characterized based on emotional distress and persecutory ideation scores. Results While emotional distress and PI are associated with one another, metacognition is negatively associated with PI and positively associated with emotional distress. Subgroup comparisons demonstrated that individuals with high emotional distress and low PI had significantly higher metacognitive capacity than those elevated in PI or reduced in both emotional distress and PI. Conclusions Findings suggest metacognitive capacity may relate to improved awareness of distress and reduced PI.

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“…In other words, schizophrenic patients exhibited worse performance compared with normal individuals in emotion perception (10)(11)(12)(13) and theory of mind tasks (17)(18)(19). In addition, they revealed a tendency toward using hostile and blaming attributions (33,34).…”

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Comparing Multiple Domains of Social Cognition in Schizophrenic Patients with vs. without Paranoid Symptoms

Saffarian

Dolatshahee

Pourshahbaz

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Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci

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Background: Various investigations demonstrated social cognitive impairments in schizophrenic patients. The impairments in schizophrenia patients are also associated with an increase in paranoid symptoms. However, comparing multiple domains of social cognition in subtypes of schizophrenia has received less attention. Objectives: The current study aimed at comparing multiple domains of social cognition in schizophrenic patients and the normal population as well as schizophrenic patients with and without paranoid symptom. Methods: In this causal-comparative study, 44 schizophrenic patients with paranoid symptoms and 18 patients without paranoid symptom admitted to three schizophrenia care centers in Shiraz, from June 1st, 2017 to July 2nd, 2017 were evaluated. The control group included 38 staff of the studied centers. The research tools were the face emotion identification task, hinting task, and ambiguous intentions hostility questionnaire (AIHQ). Results: We used the multivariate analysis of variance to compare the functioning of the sample groups. Based on the results, schizophrenic patients with/without paranoid symptoms exhibited worse performance than normal individuals in emotion perception (P = 0.01, P = 0.01) and theory of mind (P = 0.01, P = 0.01) tasks; however, patients with and without paranoid symptoms did not differ in these tasks. With respect to AIHQ , schizophrenia patients with/without paranoid symptoms inclined to use hostile (P = 0.01, P = 0.02, respectively) and blaming (P = 0.01, P = 0.02, respectively) attributions compared with normal subjects. Moreover, patients with paranoid symptoms inclined to use more hostile and blaming attributions compared to patients without paranoid symptoms. Conclusions: Three variables of emotion perception, theory of mind, and hostile and blaming attributions were able to distinguish schizophrenia patients from healthy individuals, while only hostile and blaming attributions were able to distinguish patients with paranoid symptoms and those without paranoid symptoms.

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Improving measurement of attributional style in schizophrenia; A psychometric evaluation of the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ)

Cited by 43 publications

References 25 publications

Social cognition psychometric evaluation (SCOPE) in people with early psychosis: A preliminary study

Social cognition psychometric evaluation (SCOPE) in people with early psychosis: A preliminary study

Dynamic relationships between emotional distress, persecutory ideation, and metacognition in schizophrenia

Comparing Multiple Domains of Social Cognition in Schizophrenic Patients with vs. without Paranoid Symptoms

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