Factor Structure of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: Is Empathy Preserved?
Table 2
Social cognitive and neurocognitive measures.
Patients mean, SD
Healthy controls
mean, SD
value
Degrees of freedom
Neurocognition
Neurocognitive MCCB
39.58 (7.17)
52.05 (8.14)
35.76
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Emotional perception and processing
Social Attribution (SAT-MC)
11.70 (4.56)
15.21 (3.23)
10.13
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Emotion Recognition Test (BLERT)
13.67 (3.48)
16.46 (2.67)
10.50
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Theory of Mind (The Hinting Task)
16.80 (2.73)
19.13 (0.68)
16.48
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Emotional Experience
Self-Experience of Relatedness (BORRTI)
Egocentricity
59.77 (12.55)
44.88 (8.48)
24.72
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Alienation
56.60 (10.15)
43.00 (8.71)
27.09
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Empathy (IRI)
Perspective Taking
16.13 (4.97)
19.08 (4.02)
5.54
(1, 52) 53
<0.05
Fantasy
13.37 (6.71)
13.79 (5.40)
0.06
(1, 52) 53
ns
Empathic Concern
18.53 (5.29)
20.00 (4.85)
1.10
(1, 52) 53
ns
Personal Distress
11.80 (4.64)
9.21 (4.37)
4.37
(1, 52) 53
<0.05
Social Functioning
Functional Capacity (SSPA)
62.00 (11.10)
75.08 (8.07)
23.41
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Emotional problem Solving (MSCEIT-ME)
38.53 (13.59)
50.21 (12.00)
10.90
(1, 52) 53
<0.01
Quality of Life Scale (QLS)
61.07 (19.50)
112.45 (13.97)
110.81
(1, 50) 51
<0.01
Note: Social Cognitive Measures: SAT-MC: Social Attribution Task-Multiple Choice, correct score; BLERT: Bell-Lysaker Emotion Recognition Test, correct score; Hinting: The Hinting Task, total score; BORRTI Egocentricity: Bell Object Relations Reality Testing Inventory, Egocentricity subscale and Alienation subscale; IRI: Interpersonal Reactivity Index; Social Functioning: MSCEIT-ME: Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test-Managing Emotions Branch, scaled score; overall subscores; SSPA: Social Skills Performance Assessment, overall correct score; QLS: Quality of Life Scale.
*Patient and control group differences by two-sided one-way ANOVA. Neurocognitive MCCB: Neurocognitive Composite Score of the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery: the overall neurocognitive composite score excludes the Social Cognition Index since it is a social cognition measure, based on the average of -scores of the six neurocognitive domains.
