Application of the Sentence Completion for Events in the Future Test in evaluating episodic future thinking abilities in patients with schizophrenia
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2015.10.006
- VernacularTitle:使用未来事件句子补全任务对精神分裂症患者未来想象能力评估的初探
- Author:
Mingyuan GAN
;
Chunqiu LI
;
Li LI
;
Yuze WU
;
Menghan LV
;
Yi WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
episodic future thinking;
schizophrenia;
specificity;
Sentence Completion for Events in the Fu-ture Test
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2015;(10):743-749
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To investigate the episodic future thinking in patients with schizophrenia from three per-spectives including the specificity,emotional valence,and content.Methods:Totally 25 patients with schizophrenia who met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder,Fourth Edition (DSM-Ⅳ)criteria and 25 healthy controls matched with gender,age,and years of education participated in this study.The Sentence Completion for E-vents in the Future Test (SCEFT)was used to test episodic future thinking.Results:Schizophrenia patients showed deficits in episodic future thinking[(0.13 ±0.10)vs.(0.31 ±0.12),P <0.01].They had problems in imaging the specific events even after controlling for working memory and verbal memory [F(1,54)=6.60,P <0.05].More-over,they generated less positive events compared with the healthy controls [(0.36 ±0.20)vs.(0.48 ±0.16),P <0.01].As to the content,schizophrenia patients generated more events about hospitalization [0 (0,0.64)vs.0,P <0.01],more events that were unclassifiable [0.36 (0.09,0.64)vs.0.09 (0,0.36),P <0.01],and less events re-lated with personal career [0 (0,0.27)vs.0.18 (0,0.45),P <0.01].Conclusion:It suggests that schizophrenia patients show deficits in episodic future thinking.They have problems in imaging the specific events,and they have more negative thinking.
