Looking at the other side of the coin: a meta-analysis of self-reported emotional arousal in people with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Abnormalities in emotional experience have long been viewed as core features of schizophrenia. Numerous studies indicate that people with schizophrenia report less pleasure than controls when reporting non-current feelings using trait, hypothetical, prospective, and retrospective emotional self-report formats; however, current research has demonstrated that schizophrenia patients and controls do not differ in their subjective reactions to emotional stimuli in most laboratory studies. Although substantial attention has been paid to studies examining self-reported valence in schizophrenia, subjective reports of arousal in response to affective stimuli have been neglected. Understanding the role of arousal in schizophrenia is imperative given that valence and arousal are differentially associ

SUBMITTER: Llerena K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3502689 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature