TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationships of personal resources with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning in persons with schizophrenia
T2 - results from the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses study
AU - Italian Network for Research on Psychoses
AU - Rossi, Alessandro
AU - Galderisi, Silvana
AU - Rocca, Paola
AU - Bertolino, Alessandro
AU - Mucci, Armida
AU - Rucci, Paola
AU - Gibertoni, Dino
AU - Aguglia, Eugenio
AU - Amore, Mario
AU - Andriola, Ileana
AU - Bellomo, Antonello
AU - Biondi, Massimo
AU - Callista, Gaetano
AU - Comparelli, Anna
AU - Dell’Osso, Liliana
AU - Di Giannantonio, Massimo
AU - Fagiolini, Andrea
AU - Marchesi, Carlo
AU - Monteleone, Palmiero
AU - Montemagni, Cristiana
AU - Niolu, Cinzia
AU - Piegari, Giuseppe
AU - Pinna, Federica
AU - Roncone, Rita
AU - Stratta, Paolo
AU - Tenconi, Elena
AU - Vita, Antonio
AU - Zeppegno, Patrizia
AU - Maj, Mario
AU - Mancini, Marina
AU - Nettis, Maria Antonietta
AU - Rizzo, Giuseppe
AU - Porcelli, Stefano
AU - Deste, Giacomo
AU - Galluzzo, Alessandro
AU - Gheda, Luca
AU - Carpiniello, Bernardo
AU - Ghiani, Alice
AU - Lai, Alice
AU - Cannavò, Dario
AU - Minutolo, Giuseppe
AU - Signorelli, Maria Salvina
AU - Acciavatti, Tiziano
AU - Alessandrini, Marco
AU - Vellante, Federica
AU - Cantisani, Andrea
AU - Altamura, Mario
AU - Padalino, Flavia A.
AU - Pagano, Tiziana
AU - Gramaglia, Carla
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - The relationships of personal resources with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning have never been tested systematically in a large sample of people with schizophrenia. We applied structural equation models to a sample of 921 patients with schizophrenia collected in a nationwide Italian study, with the aim to identify, among a large set of personal resources, those that may have an association with symptom severity or psychosocial functioning. Several relevant demographic and clinical variables were considered concurrently. Poor service engagement and poor recovery style, as well as older age and younger age at onset, were related to greater symptom severity and poorer social functioning. Higher resilience and higher education were related to better social functioning only. Poor problem-focused coping and internalized stigma, as well as male gender and depression, were related to symptom severity only. The explored variables showed distinctive and partially independent associations with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning. A deeper understanding of these relationships may inform treatment decisions.
AB - The relationships of personal resources with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning have never been tested systematically in a large sample of people with schizophrenia. We applied structural equation models to a sample of 921 patients with schizophrenia collected in a nationwide Italian study, with the aim to identify, among a large set of personal resources, those that may have an association with symptom severity or psychosocial functioning. Several relevant demographic and clinical variables were considered concurrently. Poor service engagement and poor recovery style, as well as older age and younger age at onset, were related to greater symptom severity and poorer social functioning. Higher resilience and higher education were related to better social functioning only. Poor problem-focused coping and internalized stigma, as well as male gender and depression, were related to symptom severity only. The explored variables showed distinctive and partially independent associations with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning. A deeper understanding of these relationships may inform treatment decisions.
KW - Personal resources
KW - Psychosocial functioning
KW - Schizophrenia
KW - Structural equation models
KW - Symptom severity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84977142334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00406-016-0710-9
DO - 10.1007/s00406-016-0710-9
M3 - Article
SN - 0940-1334
VL - 267
SP - 285
EP - 294
JO - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
JF - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
IS - 4
ER -
