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Comparative Study
. 1996 May;105(2):271-5.
doi: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.2.271.

Emotion recognition and social competence in chronic schizophrenia

K T Mueser  1 , R Doonan, D L Penn, J J Blanchard, A S Bellack, P Nishith, J DeLeon
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Comparative Study

Emotion recognition and social competence in chronic schizophrenia

K T Mueser et al. J Abnorm Psychol. 1996 May.

Abstract

This study evaluated (a) whether chronic, medicated schizophrenia patients show deficits in emotion recognition compared to nonpatients, and (b) whether deficits in emotion recognition are related to poorer social competence. Two emotion recognition tests developed by S. L. Kerr and J. M. Neale (1993) and Benton's Test of Facial Recognition (A. Benton, M. VanAllen, K. Hamsher, & H. Levin, 1978) were given to patients with chronic schizophrenia and nonpatient controls. Patients' social skills, social adjustment, and symptomatology were assessed. Like Kerr and Neale's unmedicated patients, these patients performed worse than controls on both emotion recognition tests and the control test. For patients, facial perception was related to the chronicity of illness and social competence. Chronicity of illness may contribute to face perception deficits in schizophrenia, which may affect social competence.

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