Irony and Proverb Comprehension in Schizophrenia: Do Female Patients “Dislike” Ironic Remarks?

Table 1

Clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of patient and control groups.

	Healthy controls	Schizophrenia	Significance
	𝑁=27	𝑁=20
Age	38,9	34,1	n.s.
Education years^1	15,1	14,2	n.s.
Digit span (digits)	6,2	6,1	n.s.
CPT errors	0,1	1,5	0.0026
Verbal intelligence^3	31,3	30,6	n.s.
HAWIE picture sequencing test^2	32,5	26,4	n.s.
SPQ cognitive perceptual^4	10,1	22,3	0.00007
SPQ interpersonal^4	5,7	14,8	0.00005
SPQ total score	15,6	36,7	0.00000
PANSS total score		70,3
SANS total score		36,1
SAPS total score		35,7
Global assessment of functioning scale		37,9

 ¹In full-time education.
²Subtest 2 from [62].
³Multiple-choice vocabulary test [63].
⁴As defined by [64].