Self-structure in schizophrenia.

Abstract

This study used a set-theoretical model to construct self-perception structures and person-perception structures for 10 recently hospitalized schizophrenic patients, 10 nonschizophrenic patients recently hospitalized for depression, and 10 nonpsychiatric subjects. Overall self-perception structures were significantly less elaborated in the schizophrenic patients when compared with either the psychiatric or the nonpsychiatric comparison group. No comparable differences were found for measures taken from the person-perception structures. The degree of elaboration of self in the particular context of self as psychiatric patient was found to be correlated (r = .74, p less than .01) with Global Assessment Scale ratings of current functional level in the schizophrenic group.

Hierarchical classification and the integration of self-structure in late adolescence

“…Moreover, a number of researchers have shown the HICLAS approach to be related significantly to theoretically relevant variables (e.g. Robey et al, 1989;Haviland et al, 1994) and there is evidence for the structure of social selves in late adolescence (e.g. Rosenberg and Gara, 1985;Berzonsky and Neimeyer, 1988;Byrne and Shavelson, 1996); thus, these prior studies show evidence of construct validity.…”

“…The notion of superordinate selves originated with Kelly (1955), who asserted that some identities are perceived as more salient and significant to an individual than are others. As applied to HICLAS set-theoretic modeling, a self is superordinate if it is in a self-class connected to any lower level self-class (Robey et al, 1989). In applying the concept of superordinate selves to HI-CLAS self-structure, Robey et al maintained that selves which others depend upon would be perceived to be more important and salient.…”

“…Furthermore, the social selves were selected to be valid to use with a normative sample. Thus, social selves were derived from a variety of empirical studies, including research using normative college samples (Berzonsky and Neimeyer, 1988), normal adults (Rosenberg and Gara, 1985), and psychiatric populations (Robey et al, 1989). Finally, Byrne and Shavelson (1996) found that 14 selves were sufficient to examine hierarchical, multi-dimensional self-organization in a normative sample of late adolescents.…”

“…Gara, et al, 1987;Gara et al, 1989;Robey et al, 1989;Gara et al, 1993). In one cross-sectional study of non-clinical subjects aged 10-27 years, Haviland et al (1994) used HICLAS to study the place of emotion in the self-structure models of adolescents.…”

Perceived Relationships with Parents and Paranoid Delusions: Comparisons of Currently Ill, Remitted and Normal Participants

“…For example, studies have shown that paranoid patients excessively attribute negative events to external causes [1][2][3][4] particularly malevolent others [5]. This attributional bias seems to be associated with self-representations that are poorly elaborated [6] and contradictory [7]. Although simple self-esteem questionnaires have yielded inconsistent findings [1,8,9], studies using indirect measures have provided consistent evidence of substantial dissatisfaction with the self in paranoid patients.…”