ArticleBJPsych open2019
Trait emotional experience in individuals with schizophrenia and youth at clinical high risk for psychosis.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Role of Emotion in Psychosis Onset and Symptom Persistence: A Systematic Review.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Experiencing Psychosis and Shame: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Strength and Patterns of Association.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Individuals with High Social Anhedonia but not Schizophrenia Exhibited Altered Empathy in Daily Life.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Subjective emotional experiences in clinical high-risk youth: Insights from a dyadic interaction paradigm.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- The influence of mood and social relationships on the intensity of basic self-disturbance: an experience sampling method investigation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Environmental context predicts state fluctuations in negative symptoms in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Clinical high risk for psychosis syndrome is associated with reduced neural responding to unpleasant images.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Moment-to-moment affective dynamics in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Article
- Alterations in Emotional Diversity Correspond With Increased Severity of Attenuated Positive and Negative Symptoms in the Clinical High-Risk Syndrome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundDisturbances in trait emotions are a predominant feature in schizophrenia. However, less is known about (a) differences in trait emotion across phases of the illness such as the clinical high-risk (CHR) phase and (b) whether abnormalities in trait emotion that are associated with negative symptoms are driven by primary (i.e. idiopathic) or secondary (e.g. depression, anxiety) factors.
aimsTo examine profiles of trait affective disturbance and their clinical correlates in individuals with schizophrenia and individuals at CHR for psychosis.
methodIn two studies (sample 1: 56 out-patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and 34 demographically matched individuals without schizophrenia (controls); sample 2: 50 individuals at CHR and 56 individuals not at CHR (controls)), participants completed self-report trait positive affect and negative affect questionnaires, clinical symptom interviews (positive, negative, disorganised, depression, anxiety) and community-based functional outcome measures.
resultsBoth clinical groups reported lower levels of positive affect (specific to joy among individuals with schizophrenia) and higher levels of negative affect compared with controls. For individuals with schizophrenia, links were found between positive affect and negative symptoms (which remained after controlling for secondary factors) and between negative affect and positive symptoms. For individuals at CHR, links were found between both affect dimensions and both types of symptom (which were largely accounted for by secondary factors).
conclusionsBoth clinical groups showed some evidence of reduced trait positive affect and elevated trait negative affect, suggesting that increasing trait positive affect and reducing trait negative affect is an important treatment goal across both populations. Clinical correlates of these emotional abnormalities were more integrally linked to clinical symptoms in individuals with schizophrenia and more closely linked to secondary influences such as depression and anxiety in individuals at CHR. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None.
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