Psychometrics of social cognitive measures for psychosis treatment research.

ABSTRACT: Social cognition represents an important treatment target, closely linked to everyday social function. While a number of social cognitive interventions have recently been developed, measures used to evaluate these treatments are only beginning to receive psychometric scrutiny. Study goals were to replicate recently-published psychometrics for several social cognitive measures, and to provide information for additional social cognitive measures not included in recent reports. Forty-eight outpatients with psychotic-spectrum disorders completed measures of emotion perception, theory of mind, and attributional bias on two occasions, one month apart. Measures were tested for distributional characteristics, test-retest reliability, utility as a repeated measure, and relationship to symptoms and

SUBMITTER: Davidson CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5741542 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature