Association between Empathy and Clinical Symptoms among Overweight and Non-Overweight Chinese Chronic Schizophrenia Patients.

Yuchen Li, Ruichenxi Luo, Dongmei Wang, Xiangyang Zhang

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Individuals with High Social Anhedonia but not Schizophrenia Exhibited Altered Empathy in Daily Life.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026
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Yuchen LiSchool of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.

Ruichenxi LuoSchool of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.

Dongmei WangInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.

Xiangyang ZhangSchool of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230032, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3326-382X

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the CAS International Cooperation Research Program 153111KYSB20190004the National Key Research and Development Program of China 2017YFC1310405

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Abstract

Patients with schizophrenia are afflicted by severe clinical symptoms and serious cognitive dysfunction. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential relationships between clinical symptoms and empathy and their variations between overweight and non-overweight schizophrenia patients. To address this problem, a group of 776 inpatients diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia (504 overweight patients and 272 non-overweight patients) was recruited. The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) and its five-factor model were employed to assess clinical symptoms, while empathy levels were measured using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). The overweight patients had lower education levels but higher positive symptoms than the non-overweight patients (all

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PMID37509007

DOI10.3390/brainsci13071075

PMCPMC10377734

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