ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2021
Metacognitive Beliefs, Cognitive Functioning, Psychiatric Symptoms and Empathy in People with Schizophrenia.
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- Link between metacognition and social cognition in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Self-report Assessment of Metacognition Among Schizophrenia Patients: A Systematic Review.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Review
- Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Version of the Pictorial Empathy Test for Assessing Affective Empathic Reactions in Patients with Schizophrenia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- No Sex-based Differences in Self-reported Empathy between Patients with Schizophrenia and Control Subjects.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Article
- Association of empathy with clinical symptoms and cognitive function in chronic schizophrenia patients with and without suicide attempts.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Group based metacognitive therapy for alcohol use disorder: a pilot study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Association between Empathy and Clinical Symptoms among Overweight and Non-Overweight Chinese Chronic Schizophrenia Patients.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Conceptual disorganization as a mediating variable between visual learning and metacognition in schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPeople with schizophrenia often exhibit deficits in empathy, which plays a major role in social cognition and interpersonal relationship. However, little work has investigated potential factors that influence empathy in schizophrenia. The study aimed to investigate the relationship among metacognition, psychiatric symptoms, cognitive functioning and empathy in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
methodsForty-eight people with schizophrenia were enrolled in the study group. All subjects participated in the metacognitions questionnaire-30 (MCQ-30), brief psychiatric rating scale (BPRS), neurocognitive functioning, interpersonal reactivity index (IRI), and the pictorial empathy test (PET).
resultsStepwise regression analysis revealed that cognitive self-consciousness (domain of metacognitions questionnaire-30) accounted for 37% of the variance in perspective taking scores (domain of interpersonal reactivity index). Resistance (subscale of brief psychiatric rating scale) and positive beliefs about worry (domain of metacognitions questionnaire-30) accounted for 34% of the variance in fantasy (domain of interpersonal reactivity index). Activation (subscale of brief psychiatric rating scale) was a significant predictor for empathic concern (domain of interpersonal reactivity index). Resistance, cognitive confidence (domain of metacognitions questionnaire-30), intellectual processes and inhibitory control (go-no-go task) accounted for 38% of the variance in personal distress. Negative symptoms (subscale of brief psychiatric rating scale) and cognitive self-consciousness were significant predictors for the pictorial empathy test.
conclusionThe study was aimed to examine self-perception of metacognitive beliefs and empathy. More research is needed to explore the association between metacognitive beliefs, cognitive functioning and psychiatric symptoms on empathy in people with schizophrenia.
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