TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion recognition and social competence in chronic schizophrenia
AU - Mueser, Kim T.
AU - Doonan, Robert
AU - Penn, David L.
AU - Blanchard, Jack J.
AU - Bellack, Alan S.
AU - Nishith, Pallavi
AU - DeLeon, Jose
PY - 1996/5
Y1 - 1996/5
N2 - This study evaluated (a) whether chronic, medicated schizophrenia patients show deficits in emotion recognition compared to nonpatients, and (b) whether deficits in emotion recognition are related to poorer social competence. Two emotion recognition tests developed by S. L. Kerr and J. M. Neale (1993) and Benton's Test of Facial Recognition (A. Benton, M. VanAllen, K. Hamsher, and H. Levin, 1978) were given to patients with chronic schizophrenia and nonpatient controls. Patients' social skills, social adjustment, and symptomatology were assessed. Like Kerr and Neale's unmedicated patients, these patients performed worse than controls on both emotion recognition tests and the control test. For patients, facial perception was related to the chronicity of illness and social competence. Chronicity of illness may contribute to face perception deficits in schizophrenia, which may affect social competence.
AB - This study evaluated (a) whether chronic, medicated schizophrenia patients show deficits in emotion recognition compared to nonpatients, and (b) whether deficits in emotion recognition are related to poorer social competence. Two emotion recognition tests developed by S. L. Kerr and J. M. Neale (1993) and Benton's Test of Facial Recognition (A. Benton, M. VanAllen, K. Hamsher, and H. Levin, 1978) were given to patients with chronic schizophrenia and nonpatient controls. Patients' social skills, social adjustment, and symptomatology were assessed. Like Kerr and Neale's unmedicated patients, these patients performed worse than controls on both emotion recognition tests and the control test. For patients, facial perception was related to the chronicity of illness and social competence. Chronicity of illness may contribute to face perception deficits in schizophrenia, which may affect social competence.
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U2 - 10.1037/0021-843X.105.2.271
DO - 10.1037/0021-843X.105.2.271
M3 - Article
C2 - 8723008
AN - SCOPUS:0029913655
SN - 0021-843X
VL - 105
SP - 271
EP - 275
JO - Journal of Abnormal Psychology
JF - Journal of Abnormal Psychology
IS - 2
ER -