The Validity and Comparison of Two Affiliation Tasks in Schizophrenia

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dc.contributor.advisorBlanchard, Jack Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Cristina Phoenixen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:45:02Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:45:02Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractNegative symptoms are related to worse psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia. The current study evaluates two behavioral affiliation tasks—the video-based Social Affiliation Interaction Task (SAIT) and the in-vivo Conversation Task (CT)—and explores whether behavioral ratings of social affiliation are associated with negative symptoms and community functioning. Participants, 20 with schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder (SZ) and 35 healthy controls (HC), completed both tasks and measures of negative symptoms and functioning. SZ evidenced lower behavioral affiliation on the SAIT compared to HC. There were no group differences in behavioral affiliation on the CT. Within groups, behavioral affiliation was not correlated between tasks or with symptoms and functioning. Across groups, behavioral affiliation from the SAIT was correlated with symptoms and functioning. Post hoc analyses revealed higher ratings of positive facial expression and valence in the CT for HC compared to SZ. Results suggest that the method of assessing behavioral affiliaton may influence research findings.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2377N
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18198
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledClinical psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBehavioral tasksen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCommunity functioningen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNegative symptomsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSAITen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSchizophreniaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial affiliationen_US
dc.titleThe Validity and Comparison of Two Affiliation Tasks in Schizophreniaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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