Empathy deficiency and its influencing factors of patients with schizophrenia
10.13481/j.1671-587x.20140629
- VernacularTitle:精神分裂症患者的共情缺陷及其影响因素
- Author:
Yang LIU
;
Jingyang LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
schizophrenia;
empathy;
mental symptom;
social function
- From:
Journal of Jilin University(Medicine Edition)
2014;(6):1266-1269
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the features of empathy deficiency of the patients with schizophrenia, and to analyze the relationship between empathy ability, clinical symptoms, and social function.Methods The patients with first-episode schizophrenia (n=30)and the normal controls (n=30)were selected.Interpersonal Reactivity Index-C(IRI-C),Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS),and the Scale of Social Function in Psychosis Inpatients (SSPI )were used to measure the score of empathy, mental symptoms and the social ability;the total score of empathy and the scores of four scales in two groups were compared;the relationships between the empathy ability score and clinical symptom score,social function score in patients group were analyzed.Results The IRI-C score of the patients in schizophrenia patients group was lower than that in normal control group (P<0.05).The schizophrenia patients with higher PANSS negative syndromes had the lower IRI-C score, and serious empathy deficiency;there was negative correlation between empathy ability and PANSS negative syndrome in schizophrenia patients group(r=-0.572,P<0.01);the IRI-C score wasn’t correlated with SSPI score(r=0.166,P>0.05) in schizophrenia patients group. Conclusion The first-episode schizophrenia patients have empathy deficiency, which is affected by the negative syndromes. The more severe negative symptoms of the patients are,the worse empathy ability is.
