Premorbid Social Competence and Paranoid-Nonparanoid Status in Female Schizophrenic Patients

Social Competence of Male and Female Psychiatric Patients

“…The confmation of the association of major aspects of the hypothesis of this study lends credence to clinical observations (Zigler & Phillips, 1960;Zigler & Phillips, 1961;Zigler & Phillips, 1962) concerning the three diagnostic groups of non-paranoid, paranoid schizophrenic and bi-polar affective disorder diagnostic groups manifesting higher level social skills when age of onset of psychosis occurred later in life. In addition, it replicates the results of studies of general social competence in greater detail, (Glick & Zigler, 1986;Glick, Zigler & Zigler, 1985;Zigler & Levine, 1973;Zigler & Levine, 1981;Zigler, Levine & Zigler, 1977) verifying that two specific sub-skills of social competence, sociability and social presence, are related to age of onset of psychosis. This can be described as a developmental relationship, inferring the likelihood that the onset of psychosis interferes with some aspects of social growth.…”

“…The sample investigated in this study was divided by gender based on the scoring procedures of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI, Gough, 1956), as well as upon the literature of early studies in the social competence of psychiatric patients, indicating an average difference between social competence scores of males and females, with females obtaining higher scores (Zigler et al, 1960(Zigler et al, , 1962(Zigler et al, , 1973(Zigler et al, , 1977(Zigler et al, , 1981(Zigler et al, , 1986Goldstein et al, 1968Goldstein et al, , 1978Tsuang et al, 1974Tsuang et al, , 1975Tsuang et al, , 1976Tsuang et al, , 1976.…”

“…In 1960, 1961, and 1962 and Phillips confirmed the association of social skills of paranoid and non-paranoid diagnosis with ranges of age of onset of psychosis. Their later studies indicated that a higher level of social development before a breakdown was associated with greater levels of social skill recovery (Glick & Zigler, 1986;Glick, Zigler & Zigler, 1985;Zigler & Levine, 1973Zigler, Levine & Zigler, 1977).…”

New Perspectives in the Epidemiology of Schizophrenia

“…It applies not only to associations observed in large aggregates in population studies, but also to individual courses of the disorder. Prcmorbid deficits in social functioning are the most powerful predictor of the social course [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The dis order is frequently associated with social underachievement, for instance a lower occu pational status compared with that of the father [8.…”

Attempt at Predicting Paraphrenic Outcome in Young, First Admitted Schizophrenic Patients

“…A higher age of onset [24] in paranoid schizophrenia goes with higher fertility and a more consolidated premorbid social adjust ment [15,45,46]. This connection has not always been confirmed [8,40] when simple diagnostic dichotomies were applied, but a linear relationship between paranoid symp tomatology and premorbid social compe tence has been demonstrated by applying adequate rating scales to a sample of schizo phrenics [16],…”