Open AccessSelf-esteem and communication disturbances in schizophrenic patients
Author(s) -
Vitalija Lepeškienė
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
psichologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-0061
pISSN - 1392-0359
DOI - 10.15388/psichol.1990.10.9070
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , isolation (microbiology) , social isolation , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
The present paper is concerned with the disturbances in the communication processes of the patients with mild cases of schizophrenia. The results of the . investigation have shown that selfesteem of those patients is much lower than that of the control group and that those patients feel themselves much more anxious in social situations than healthy persons. It proves the idea that social isolation of these patients is a defensive behaviour, caused by their sttiving to avoid "psychological threat" to their self-esteem.