Research Article
Factor Structure of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: Is Empathy Preserved?
Table 1
Characteristics for demographic, functional, and clinical measures.
| | | Patients | Healthy Controls | /Chi square | Degrees of freedom | |
| | Age (mean, SD) | 46.47 (8.22) | 39.79 (8.87) | 8.195 | (1, 52) 53 | <0.01 | | Gender (, %) | | | 1.344 | 1 | ns | | Male | 14 (46.7%) | 15 (62.5%) | | | | | Female | 16 (53.3%) | 9 (37.5%) | | | | | Ethnicity (, %) | | | 0.627 | 1 | ns | | African-American | 17 (56.7%) | 11 (45.8%) | | | | | Caucasian | 13 (43.3%) | 13 (54.2%) | | | | | Education years (mean, SD) | 13.13 (1.78) | 16.25 (2.54) | 28.065 | (1, 52) 53 | <0.01 | | Parental education years (mean, SD)* | 12.65 (5.11) | 14.26 (2.70) | 1.819 | (1, 47) 48 | ns | | Age at illness onset (mean, SD) | 24. 27 (8.05) | NA | | | | | Illness duration, in years (mean, SD) | 22.20 (10.30) | NA | | | | | GAF (mean, SD)*** | 52.15 (15.02) | NA | | | | | Schizophrenia diagnosis (, %) | | | | | | | Paranoid | 17 (56.7%) | NA | | | | | Undifferentiated | 3 (10.0%) | NA | | | | | Schizoaffective | 13 (33.3%) | NA | | | | | PANSS (mean, SD) | | | | | | | Positive | 18.93 (6.52) | NA | | | | | Negative | 17.00 (6.10) | NA | | | | | General | 30.17 (10.02) | NA | | | | | Chlorpromazine equivalents (md/day)† | 654.03 (659.21) | NA | | | |
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Abbreviations: GAF: Global Assessment of Functioning; PANSS: Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale.
*includes 26 patients and 23 healthy controls.
**includes 22 healthy controls.
***includes 26 patients.
†includes 28 patients.
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