Lexical Characteristics of Emotional Narratives in Schizophrenia: Relationships with Symptoms, Functioning, and Social Cognition

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 203, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 702-708

  Buck, Benjamin ^a   Penn, David L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognition; language; narrative; Schizophrenia; social functioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MARRIAGE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; ROLE PLAYING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH DISORDER; THEORY OF MIND; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941313190     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000354     Document Type: Article

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