Social Emotional Memory and Negative Symptoms in Individuals with Schizophrenia

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dc.contributor.advisorBlanchard, Jack Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorBradshaw, Kristen Reneeen_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.accessioned2015-06-27T05:32:32Z
dc.date.available2015-06-27T05:32:32Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractThe current study investigated social and nonsocial emotional memory in schizophrenia, the relation of impairments in the recall of positive stimuli to increased negative symptoms, and the mediating role of defeatist performance beliefs. Twenty-three individuals with schizophrenia and twenty-four healthy controls completed clinical symptom interviews, social and nonsocial laboratory emotional memory tasks, and a measure of dysfunctional attitudes. Results indicated that on a social affective learning task, in comparison to controls, the schizophrenia participants were impaired in their ability to exhibit minimal affective learning of positive pairings. Defeatist performance beliefs did not mediate the relation between recall of positive stimuli and experiential negative symptoms. These findings suggest that it is primarily in the social domain that we see deficits in emotional memory in schizophrenia, and that this impairment in the ability to learn positive social associations may be linked to decreased motivation to engage in social, vocational, and recreational activities.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2290C
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16704
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDefeatist Performance Beliefsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLearningen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMemoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNegative Symptomsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSchizophreniaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocialen_US
dc.titleSocial Emotional Memory and Negative Symptoms in Individuals with Schizophreniaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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