Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia

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Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia. / Lehmann, Anja; Bahçesular, Katja; Brockmann, Eva-Maria; Biederbick, Sarah-Elisabeth; Dziobek, Isabel; Gallinat, Jürgen; Montag, Christiane.

in: PSYCHIAT RES, Jahrgang 220, Nr. 3, 30.12.2014, S. 825-33.

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Lehmann, A, Bahçesular, K, Brockmann, E-M, Biederbick, S-E, Dziobek, I, Gallinat, J & Montag, C 2014, 'Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia', PSYCHIAT RES, Jg. 220, Nr. 3, S. 825-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.09.009

APA

Lehmann, A., Bahçesular, K., Brockmann, E-M., Biederbick, S-E., Dziobek, I., Gallinat, J., & Montag, C. (2014). Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia. PSYCHIAT RES, 220(3), 825-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.09.009

Vancouver

Lehmann A, Bahçesular K, Brockmann E-M, Biederbick S-E, Dziobek I, Gallinat J et al. Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia. PSYCHIAT RES. 2014 Dez 30;220(3):825-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.09.009

Bibtex

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title = "Subjective experience of emotions and emotional empathy in paranoid schizophrenia",
abstract = "Unlike the cognitive dimensions, alterations of the affective components of empathy in schizophrenia are less well understood. This study explored cognitive and affective dimensions of empathy in the context of the subjective experience of aspects of emotion processing, including emotion regulation, emotional contagion, and interpersonal distress, in individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls. In addition, the predictive value of these parameters on psychosocial function was investigated. Fifty-five patients with paranoid schizophrenia and 55 healthy controls were investigated using the Multifaceted Empathy Test and Interpersonal Reactivity Index, as well as the Subjective Experience of Emotions and Emotional Contagion Scales. Individuals with schizophrenia showed impairments of cognitive empathy, but maintained emotional empathy. They reported significantly more negative emotional contagion, overwhelming emotions, lack of emotions, and symbolization of emotions by imagination, but less self-control of emotional expression than healthy persons. Besides cognitive empathy, the experience of a higher extent of overwhelming emotions and of less interpersonal distress predicted psychosocial function in patients. People with schizophrenia and healthy controls showed diverging patterns of how cognitive and emotional empathy related to the subjective aspects of emotion processing. It can be assumed that variables of emotion processing are important moderators of empathic abilities in schizophrenia.",
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AU - Dziobek, Isabel

AU - Gallinat, Jürgen

AU - Montag, Christiane

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N2 - Unlike the cognitive dimensions, alterations of the affective components of empathy in schizophrenia are less well understood. This study explored cognitive and affective dimensions of empathy in the context of the subjective experience of aspects of emotion processing, including emotion regulation, emotional contagion, and interpersonal distress, in individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls. In addition, the predictive value of these parameters on psychosocial function was investigated. Fifty-five patients with paranoid schizophrenia and 55 healthy controls were investigated using the Multifaceted Empathy Test and Interpersonal Reactivity Index, as well as the Subjective Experience of Emotions and Emotional Contagion Scales. Individuals with schizophrenia showed impairments of cognitive empathy, but maintained emotional empathy. They reported significantly more negative emotional contagion, overwhelming emotions, lack of emotions, and symbolization of emotions by imagination, but less self-control of emotional expression than healthy persons. Besides cognitive empathy, the experience of a higher extent of overwhelming emotions and of less interpersonal distress predicted psychosocial function in patients. People with schizophrenia and healthy controls showed diverging patterns of how cognitive and emotional empathy related to the subjective aspects of emotion processing. It can be assumed that variables of emotion processing are important moderators of empathic abilities in schizophrenia.

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