ArticleSchizophrenia research2015
Social affiliation and negative symptoms in schizophrenia: Examining the role of behavioral skills and subjective responding.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Exploring the Experience of Community Participation Among Individuals With Serious Mental Illness.OTJR : occupation, participation and health · 2025Article
- Emotional mimicry and smiling behaviors in schizophrenia: An ecological approach.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of multi-task cognitive activation therapy combining motor and cognitive tasks in patients with schizophrenia.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Development and evaluation of a risk prediction model for social disability in schizophrenia patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Motivation and Pleasure Deficits Undermine the Benefits of Social Affiliation in Psychosis.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Interpersonal consequences of paranoid ideation, negative symptoms and sleep problems in a transdiagnostic sample of individuals with psychosis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Blunted ventral striatal reactivity to social reward is associated with more severe motivation and pleasure deficits in psychosis.Research square · 2024Article
- Differential deficits in social versus monetary reinforcement learning in schizophrenia: Associations with facial emotion recognition.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- The Relevance of Animal Models of Social Isolation and Social Motivation for Understanding Schizophrenia: Review and Future Directions.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Review
- "Goals in Focus"-a targeted CBT approach for motivational negative symptoms of psychosis: study protocol for a randomized-controlled feasibility trial.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
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Abstract
Schizophrenia is characterized by profound impairment in the motivation for social affiliation. Negative symptoms are associated with such impairment but the contribution of behavioral skill deficits is unclear. In this study we utilized a novel video paradigm to assess performance-based affiliative behavioral skills in individuals with schizophrenia (N=48) and community controls (N=29). Individuals with schizophrenia displayed significant impairment in behavioral affiliative skills compared to controls; however, in response to the affiliative interaction the groups did not differ on self-reported affective responding, appraisal of the interaction partner, or desire to interact with the partner in the future. Importantly, within the patient group more severe negative symptoms (particularly those related to motivation and pleasure) were associated with poorer affiliative social skills and this relationship was independent of instrumental (non-social) skills, depression or positive symptoms. More severe negative symptoms were also associated with less positive affect in response to the interaction and less positive appraisals of the interaction partner. Self-reported social anhedonia was related to patients' diminished willingness to interact with the partner in the future. These results demonstrate that negative symptoms in schizophrenia are related to both affiliative skill deficits and less affiliative subjective responses to interaction partners.
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