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Identity in schizophrenia: A study of trait self-knowledge
Boulanger, Marie; Dethier, Marie; Gendre, Francis et al.
2013In Psychiatry Research, 209 (3), p. 367-374
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Keywords :
Schizophrenia; Identity; Traits
Abstract :
[en] Identity results from interlock of two systems which are a set of abstracted representations about oneself and a phenomenological self. Literature highlights identity disturbance in schizophrenia that affects each of both systems. In the same vein, the present study investigates the stability and the quality of traits self-knowledge, a component of abstracted representations of self, in schizophrenia patients. Sixty-eight patients with schizophrenia and 68 healthy control subjects completed a short version of a personality scale (LABEL). This scale is composed of two versions (A and B), each comprising 50 adjectives that correspond to synonymous adjectives in the alternate list. Participants indicated how these adjectives described themselves and completed both versions of the scale on two separate occasions, one month apart. The findings showed that schizophrenic patients presented an unstable identity and change in identity quality compared with healthy subjects. However, this identity disturbance was weaker than expected. These results are discussed in a part of autobiographical memory disturbances in schizophrenia, illness duration and the decompensation stage.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Boulanger, Marie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Dethier, Marie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Gendre, Francis
Blairy, Sylvie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Language :
English
Title :
Identity in schizophrenia: A study of trait self-knowledge
Publication date :
30 October 2013
Journal title :
Psychiatry Research
ISSN :
0165-1781
eISSN :
1872-7123
Publisher :
Elsevier North Holland Biomedical Press, Limerick, Ireland
Volume :
209
Issue :
3
Pages :
367-374
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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