Cognitive discrepancies, motivation and subjective well-being in people with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT: Research indicates that people with schizophrenia often achieve similar levels of subjective well-being (SWB) compared to healthy controls despite prominent symptomatology and significant functional difficulties. Furthermore, compared to healthy controls, young-adult people with schizophrenia differ in the relative importance they place on values, or guiding life principles, associated with educational and occupational success (openness to change), suggesting that changing motivations may contribute to SWB and the apparent motivational deficits commonly reported in this population. The current study sought to better understand these relationships in middle-aged people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (n=29) versus a relatively healthy group of community controls

SUBMITTER: Krzyzanowski D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8259292 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature