Negative affect predicts social functioning across schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Findings from an integrated data analysis.

ABSTRACT: Most people with a serious mental illness experience significant functional impairment despite ongoing pharmacological treatment. Thus, in order to improve outcomes, a better understanding of functional predictors is needed. This study examined negative affect, a construct comprised of negative emotional experience, as a predictor of social functioning across serious mental illnesses. One hundred twenty-seven participants with schizophrenia, 113 with schizoaffective disorder, 22 with psychosis not otherwise specified, 58 with bipolar disorder, and 84 healthy controls (N=404) completed self-report negative affect measures. Elevated levels of negative affect were observed in clinical participants compared with healthy controls. For both clinical and healthy control participants, negative aff

SUBMITTER: Grove TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5014676 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature