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HOw ACCUrATE ArE INdIVIdUAlS wITH SCHIzOPHrENIA wHEN TryING TO BE EMPATHIC ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Williams, Ted Popish, Sarah J. Furman, Amy Pham, Richard Morreale, Anthony |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Veterans with schizophrenia experience a high level of disability and poor community functioning, constituting a major public health concern. Although existing treatment programs for schizophrenia have been effective in controlling clinical symptoms, they have been less successful in improving community functioning. The Treatment Unit of the VISN 22 MIRECC has devoted its efforts to find the key determinants of community functioning in schizophrenia, which can ultimately help develop novel, effective treatment programs to improve community functioning in this population. Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated the important role of social cognition, the mental operations underlying social interactions, in understanding community functioning deficits in empathic judgment. The stimuli used in this study were video clips that contain multi-modal social cues and approximate real-world social interactions. In the task, each video clip shows a person (referred to as “a target”) describing positive or negative autobiographic events. Both the schizophrenia patient group and comparison group were asked to continuously judge the emotional experience of the target while watching a clip. Empathic accuracy was measured as a correspondence between the subjects’ rating of the emotional experience of the target and the target’s own rating of their emotional experience. Compared to controls, patients with schizophrenia exhibited lower empathic accuracy across both positive and negative video clips, indicating less accuracy in judging the affective state of another person. We also found that schizophrenia. Our recent studies have been more focused on elucidating the nature of social cognitive impairments in schizophrenia. Empathy, the ability to share and understand the emotional states of others and respond appropriately, is considered a core component of social cognition and is crucial for maintaining successful social relationships. Our recent study examined empathic judgment in schizophrenia, especially focusing on the accuracy of empathic judgment (referred to as empathic accuracy). Inaccurate empathic judgments can lead to social misperceptions, inappropriate responses and problems at work and/or school. We employed an Empathic Accuracy Task using ecologically valid social stimuli to capture the transient and fluctuating nature of everyday UPCOMING EVENTS |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.mirecc.va.gov/visn22/Mindview_Volume3_issue3.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
