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Social cognition in bipolar disorder: the role of sociodemographic, clinical, and neurocognitive variables in emotional intelligence
Author(s) -
Varo C.,
Jiménez E.,
Solé B.,
Bonnín C. M.,
Torrent C.,
Lahera G.,
Benabarre A.,
Saiz P. A.,
Fuente L.,
MartínezArán A.,
Vieta E.,
Reinares M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/acps.13014
Subject(s) - neurocognitive , psychology , emotional intelligence , intelligence quotient , cognition , bipolar disorder , neuropsychology , clinical psychology , structural equation modeling , family history , psychiatry , developmental psychology , medicine , statistics , mathematics
Objective The main aims of this study were to examine the differences in the Emotional Intelligence ( EI ), the emotional domain of social cognition ( SC ), between euthymic patients with bipolar disorder ( BD ) and healthy controls ( HC ) and to evaluate the contribution of sociodemographic, clinical, and neuropsychological variables to EI . Methods We recruited 202 patients with BD and 50 HC . EI was evaluated using the Mayer–Salovey–Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test ( MSCEIT ). The sociodemographic, clinical, and neurocognitive variables that showed a significant association with EI were entered into hierarchical multiple regression analysis. Results BD patients obtained significantly lower scores compared to HC in the Emotional Intelligence Quotient ( EIQ ) and in the Understanding Emotions branch score. The best fitting model for the variables associated with EI in the patients group was a linear combination of gender, estimated IQ , family history of affective diagnosis, and executive function. The model, including these previous variables, explained up to 27.6% of the observed variance ( R 2 = 0.276, F = 16.406, P < 0.001). Conclusions The identification of variables associated with deficit in EI , such as male gender, lower estimated IQ , family history of affective diagnosis. and lower executive function performance, may help in selecting treatment targets to improve SC , and especially EI , in patients with BD .