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Published on: February 1, 2012
Cognitive and emotional empathy in schizophrenia as State-independent impairment: A multidimensional task paradigm
Pradip Chouhan1, Vijay Gogoi1, Arnab Datta2
1Department of Psychiatry, Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health (LGBRIMH), Sonitpur, Assam, India.
Aims:
This study assessed empathy in clinically stable individuals with SCZ and their first-degree relatives (FDRs).
Background:
Empathy, comprising cognitive and affective components, is impaired in schizophrenia (SCZ) and influences functional outcomes.
Methods:
Thirty individuals with SCZ, their unaffected siblings (n = 30) and matched healthy controls (HCs) participated through purposive sampling. Participants completed the multifaceted empathy test (MET) task, which evaluates both cognitive empathy (CE) and emotional empathy (EE).
Results:
Individuals with SCZ scored significantly lower than both FDR and HC on measures of positive (ηp 2 = 0.25), negative (ηp 2 = 0.15), and composite (ηp 2 = 0.27) CE, unlike previous studies. Correlation analysis for individuals with SCZ showed that composite EE was significantly correlated with composite CE.
Conclusions:
CE, but not EE, is significantly impaired in individuals with SCZ in remission. This deficit is related to the duration of the illness.
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