Open AccessInterpersonal distances, coping strategies and psychopathology in patients with depression and schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Alexander M. Ponizovsky,
Irena Finkelstein,
Inna Poliakova,
Dimitry Mostovoy,
Nehama Goldberger,
Paola Rosca
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
world journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2220-3206
DOI - 10.5498/wjp.v3.i3.74
Subject(s) - psychopathology , distancing , psychology , coping (psychology) , clinical psychology , beck depression inventory , distress , interpersonal communication , social distance , psychosis , positive and negative syndrome scale , psychiatry , medicine , anxiety , disease , covid-19 , social psychology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
To explore (1) intergroup differences in comfortable interpersonal distances (CIDs) and the use of coping strategies; (2) the association of these parameters with individual symptomatology; and (3) the interplay between CIDs and coping styles in patients with depression and schizophrenia.