[en] Objective: The present study investigated the stability of the self-schema in patients with schizophrenia. Method: Twenty five patients with schizophrenia were compared to twenty healthy subjects. The participants completed a questionnaire to describe themselves (a short version of Label from Gendre, 2008) at time 1 and one month later (time 2). Two parallel versions of the questionnaire were employed. Each version contained fifty adjectives which corresponded to personality traits. A comparison between the two versions allowed to investigate the stability of the self-schema. A stability score was computed. Further, participants’ neuropsychological functioning as well as the severity of the symptomatology was measured. Results: Schizophrenia patients displayed a lower score of stability (m = 0,61 ; sd= 0,33) compared to healthy subjects (m = 0,84 ; sd = 0,13) (t(43) = 2.94 ; p = .005). The BDI score was correlated to stability score (r(45) = -.44 ; p = .002). Conclusion: In schizophrenia patients the representation of the self is changing over time. This result is in line with a previous one (Nienszanski, 2003). However, to ours knowledges, the present study is the first to objectively measure this changing.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Boulanger, Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Dethier, Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Jacob, Nathalie
Gendre, Francis
Blairy, Sylvie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale