Relation of social competence to scores on two scales of psychosis proneness.

Abstract

It was predicted that college students who were high on physical anhedonia and perceptual aberration would have poor social competence. The prediction followed from clinical reports that these characteristics are found in psychosisprone individuals, a group also described as having poor social competence. Anhedonia and perceptual aberration were measured by the true-false scales of Chapman, Chapman, and Raulin, and social competence was measured by the Goldsmith and McFall Interpersonal Behavior Role-Playing Test. The anhedonic subjects were less socially skilled than the control subjects (p < .05), but the difference fell short of significance for the perceptual aberration subjects.

Social anhedonia and affiliation: Examining behavior and subjective reactions within a social interaction

“…Specifically, the social anhedonia group was rated as less socially skilled in the domains of verbal content (or the appropriate discussion of interests and social activities), affiliation (or the extent to which they demonstrate engagement and involvement in a social interaction), and overall social skill. These findings are consistent with studies of college students in which high anhedonia was related to various indices of decreased social competence (Haberman et al, 1979; Chapman et al, 1980; Numbers and Chapman, 1982; Beckfield, 1985) however, the methodology of these studies differed from the current study in that participants were also high on physical anhedonia and these studies used role-play responses to problematic academic and interpersonal relationships to measure social competence. Results of the current study suggest that people elevated on social anhedonia are less skilled during social interactions and this may be detrimental to their social relationships since peers may respond negatively or wish to no longer interact with people who display deficient social skills (South et al, 2005).…”

Relationship of obsessive—compulsive symptomatology to anxiety, depression and schizotypy in a clinical population

“…The scales selected have been found to correlate with clinical characteristics of schizophrenia (e.g. Eckblad & Chapman, 1983;George & Neufeld, 1987;Katsanis, Iacono, Beiser & Lacey, 1992); to be related in normal populations to cognitive and interpersonal deficits commonly found in schizophrenia (Asamow, Nuechterlein & Marder, 1983;Haberman, Chapman, Numbers & McFall, 1979;Lenzenweger, Cornblatt & Putnick, 1991;Miller & Chapman, 1983;Zborowski & Garske, 1993); to be elevated in first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia (Clementz, Grove, Katsanis & Iacono, 1991 ;Lenzenweger & Loranger, 1989~); and to correlate with other measures of schizotypy (Kendler et a/., 1991).…”

P300 and Psychiatric Vulnerability in University Studentsa

“…Recent studies indicate that high scores on these scales are associated with schizophrenic-like thought disorder on the Rorschach (Edell and Chapman, 1979), poor social skills (Haberman et al, 1979), and more psychotic-like experiences (Chapman et al, 1980).…”