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Suzanne L Kaiser1, Jennifer A Snyder, Rhiannon Corcoran
1School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. suzanne.kaiser@manchester.ac.uk
Abstract:
We assessed the role of satisfaction with social support as a mediating factor in the relationship between insight and depression in psychosis. Forty inpatients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders self-completed measures of insight, social support, and depression. Results showed a curvilinear relationship between insight and satisfaction with support: those with high and low insight tended to have higher satisfaction with support than those with moderate insight. Satisfaction also had a negative relationship with depression. We found no direct relationship between insight and depression. This was consistent with satisfaction with social support mediating the relationship between global insight and depression.
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