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  • Psychology
  • Social Cognition

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  • Reduced perspective-taking is common in psychiatric populations.
  • The clinical impact of these perspective-taking deficits is not well understood.

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  • To investigate the prospective association between perspective-taking abilities and symptom severity/functional outcomes in psychiatric patients.
  • To determine if poorer perspective-taking predicts depressive symptoms, functional impairment, or relationship issues.

Main Methods:

  • 421 adults in psychiatric treatment completed self-report measures at admission and discharge.
  • Utilized cross-lagged panel models to analyze directional effects between variables.
  • Assessed interpersonal reactivity, depressive symptoms, functional impairment, and symptom severity.

Main Results:

  • Increased perspective-taking was associated with less functional impairment and fewer relationship problems.
  • Perspective-taking significantly and bidirectionally predicted relationship problems.
  • Perspective-taking did not prospectively predict depressive symptoms.

Conclusions:

  • Perspective-taking deficits are specifically linked to relationship problems in adults with severe mental illness.
  • Improving perspective-taking may be a valuable therapeutic target for this population.