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Hereditary predisposition and sexual self-concept in schizophrenia
Dulijano Ljubicić1, Marija Vucić Peitl, Eduard Pavlović
1Psychiatry Clinic of KBC Rijeka, Cambijerijeva 17/7, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.
Objective:
Aim of this research was to establish possible differences in sexual self-perception among acute and chronic schizophrenic patients, taking into consideration their hereditary predisposition.
Methods:
Two groups of schizophrenic patients were analyzed, consisting of 100 acute and 100 chronic schizophrenic patients, treated at the Psychiatric clinic Rijeka, in the period 1998-1999, taking into consideration their hereditary predisposition and influence of that predisposition on seven aspects of sexual self-perception: sexual self-scheme, sexual consciousness, readiness for sexual action sexual adventurism, level of negative emotions towards one's sexuality, perception of one's sexual self-competence, sexual satisfaction.
Results:
Results show that hereditary predisposition in chronic schizophrenic patients has a negative effect on some of the aspects of sexual self-perception: sexual self-scheme and sexual satisfaction. Therefore, patients with hereditary predisposition achieve lower results than those without hereditary predisposition.
Conclusion:
We can conclude that hereditary predisposition negatively influences certain aspects of sexual self-perception in chronic schizophrenic patients, and that it does not influence aspects of sexual self-perception in acute schizophrenic patients.
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