Advances in the ecological validity of research on social cognition in schizophrenia: A systematic review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ecologically valid assessments need to require tasks representative of real, everyday interactions between people in a social environment (i.e., verisimilitude) and to predict aspects of real-life performance in those same interactions (i.e., veridicality). To determine how researchers interested in social cognition among people with schizophrenia currently understand and apply ecological validity in their work, we conducted a systematic review of studies that had the ecological validity of their results as an explicit objective.

Methods

We performed the described systematic review following PRISMA guidelines.

Results

Of the 18 studies reviewed, only two defined ecological validity, 15 incorporated modifications to improve their verisimilitude, eig

SUBMITTER: Cavieres A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11532276 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature