Confidence, performance, and accuracy of self-assessment of social cognition: A comparison of schizophrenia patients and healthy controls.

ABSTRACT: Impairments in self-assessment in schizophrenia have been shown to have functional and clinical implications. Prior studies have suggested that overconfidence can be associated with poorer cognitive performance in people with schizophrenia, and that reduced awareness of performance may be associated with disability. However, overconfidence is common in healthy individuals as well. This study examines the correlations between performance on a social cognitive test, confidence in performance, effort allocated to the task, and correlates of confidence in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls (HC). Measures included self-reports of depression, social cognitive ability, and social functioning. A performance-based emotion recognition test assessed social cognitive performance and prov

SUBMITTER: Jones MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889550 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature