Measuring Emotional Awareness in Patients With Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorders.

ABSTRACT: The ability to mentalize (i.e., to form representations of mental states and processes of oneself and others) is often impaired in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Emotional awareness (EA) represents one aspect of affective mentalizing and can be assessed with the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS), but findings regarding individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders are inconsistent. The present study aimed at examining the usability and convergent validity of the LEAS in a sample of N = 130 stabilized outpatients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders. An adequacy rating was added to the conventional LEAS rating to account for distortions of content due to, for example, delusional thinking. Scores of the patient group were compared with those of a

SUBMITTER: Maaßen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8632138 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature