Cognitive and social cognitive predictors of change in objective versus subjective quality-of-life in rehabilitation for schizophrenia

Abstract A small but growing body of work has studied the role of cognitive skills in predicting response to integrated programs of rehabilitation in schizophrenia. No studies however, have directly compared the roles and interrelationships of cognition, social cognition and other disease factors in...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Psychiatry research 2012-12, Vol.200 (2), p.102-107
Main Authors: Kurtz, Matthew M, Bronfeld, Melanie, Rose, Jennifer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living - psychology
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Personal Satisfaction
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychoses
Quality of Life - psychology
Quality-of-life
Rehabilitation
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - diagnosis
Schizophrenia - rehabilitation
Schizophrenic Psychology
Social Adjustment
Social cognition
Social Perception
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Abstract A small but growing body of work has studied the role of cognitive skills in predicting response to integrated programs of rehabilitation in schizophrenia. No studies however, have directly compared the roles and interrelationships of cognition, social cognition and other disease factors in predicting improvements in the separate domains of objective quality-of-life (QOL) and subjective satisfaction with life (SWL) in response to rehabilitation in schizophrenia. Forty-four outpatients with schizophrenia were administered measures of cognition, social cognition, and symptoms at entry to a psychosocial and cognitive rehabilitation program. Change in objective QOL and subjective SWL before and after treatment were measured as outcome variables. Cognitive measures of verbal memory and social cognitive measures of facial affect recognition were linked to improvements in objective QOL, while verbal memory and crystallized verbal skill was linked to improvements in SWL. Facial affect recognition partially mediated the relationship between verbal memory and improvements in objective QOL. The implications of these findings for understanding interrelationships between cognition and social cognition and their role in predicting change in different domains of outcome as a function of behavioral treatment are discussed.
ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.06.025