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Schizophrenic patients and their parents
Author(s) -
Rund B. Rishovd,
Blakar R. M.
Publication year - 1986
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/j.1600-0447.1986.tb06261.x
Subject(s) - psychology , egocentrism , cognition , paranoid schizophrenia , offspring , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , deviance (statistics) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , psychosis , pregnancy , statistics , mathematics , biology , genetics
The research design and main findings from a multimethod research project, in which cognitive disorders in schizophrenic patients and communication deviances in their parents were examined, are presented. Non‐paranoid schizophrenics manifested cognitive disturbances on a majority of the variables examined, while paranoid schizophrenics did not. Likewise, parents of non‐paranoid schizophrenics revealed significantly more communication deviance than parents of paranoid schizophrenics as well as the control groups (normal and “neurotics”). Egocentrism appeared to be a prominent characteristic of the communication of nonparanoid schizophrenics’ parents. Conspicuous among the cognitive deficits in their offspring were attentional disturbances. Support for the existence of a link between the parents’ communication and the offsprings’ cognitive functioning was found by correlation‐ and regression analyses.