ERIC Number: EJ1261921
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Publication Date: 2020-Aug
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Social Cognition in Autism and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: The Same but Different?
Boada, L.; Lahera, G.; Pina-Camacho, L.; Merchán-Naranjo, J.; Díaz-Caneja, C. M.; Bellón, J. M.; Ruiz-Vargas, J. M.; Parellada, M.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, v50 n8 p3046-3059 Aug 2020
Social cognition impairment is a core shared phenotype in both schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). This study compares social cognition performance through four different instruments in a sample of 147 individuals with ASD or SSD and in healthy controls. We found that both clinical groups perform similarly to each other and worse than healthy controls in all social cognition tasks. Only performance on the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC) test was independent of age and intelligence. Proportionately, individuals in the control group made significantly more overmentalization errors than both patients group did and made fewer undermentalization errors than patients with SSD did. AUC analyses showed that the MASC was the instrument that best discriminated between the clinical and control groups. Multivariate analysis showed negative symptom severity as a potential mediator of the association between social cognition deficit and poor global functioning.
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Schizophrenia, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Diagnostic Tests, Age Differences, Intelligence, Error Patterns, Severity (of Disability), Correlation, Patients
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Language: English
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