Schizophrenia Research and Treatment

Research Article

Impact of Negative Symptom Domains and Other Clinical Characteristics on Functional Outcomes in Patients with Schizophrenia

Table 3

Hierarchical multiple regression analysis with different facets of functioning as the dependent variable (final model).


Model	Variable added				95% CI

Withdrawal^a	Asociality	-0.411	-4.527	0.000	-0.594~-0.232	0.241
	Negative self-evaluations	-0.207	-2.279	0.025	-0.164~-0.017

Interpersonal relationships^b	Asociality	-0.540	-6.817	0.000	-1.337~-0.734	0.423
	Negative self-evaluations	-0.262	-3.309	0.001	-0.340~-0.085

Social participation^c	Asociality	-0.495	-5.637	0.000	-1.709~-0.819	0.237

Recreation^d	Avolition	-0.353	-3.417	0.000	-1.633~-0.433	0.402
	Asociality	-0.325	-3.152	0.000	-1.459~-0.332

Self-reliance and execution^f	SCoRS	-0.370	-3.645	0.000	-0.434~-0.128	0.402
	Avolition	-0.340	-3.354	0.001	-1.784~-0.458

Employment^g	Avolition	-0.604	-5.635	0.000	-1.51~-0.794	0.589
	SCoRS	-0.371	-4.004	0.002	-0.176~-0.040
	Alogia	-0.269	-2.933	0.004	-0.464~-0.089
	Anhedonia	-0.267	-2.847	0.005	-0.359~-0.064
	Asociality	-0.253	-2.609	0.011	-0.581~-0.079

^aFinal , . Variables removed (). SCoRS ; BPRS ; negative other–self evaluations ; anhedonia ; avolition ; blunted affect ; alogia . ^bFinal , . Variables removed (). SCoRS ; BPRS ; negative other–self evaluations ; anhedonia ; avolition ; blunted affect ; alogia . ^cFinal , . Variables removed (). SCoRS ; BPRS ; negative self-evaluations ; anhedonia ; avolition ; blunted affect ; alogia . ^dFinal , . SCoRS ; BPRS ; negative self-evaluations . Variables removed (). Asocialty ; blunted affect ; alogia . ^eFinal , . Variables removed (). BPRS ; negative self-evaluations ; negative other–self evaluations ; anhedonia ; asocialty ; avolition ; blunted affect ; alogia . ^fFinal , . Variables removed (). BPRS ; negative self-evaluations ; anhedonia ; asocialty ; blunted affect ; alogia . ^gFinal , . Variables removed (). BPRS ; negative self-evaluations ; asocialty ; blunted affect . SCoRS: Schizophrenia Cognition Rating Scale; CI: confidence interval; Adj: adjusted.