Abstract
In this chapter, research is summarized regarding the relationship between measures of emotion perception and indices of social functioning among persons with schizophrenia. In particular, the results of three studies from our social cognition laboratory are reviewed. The findings revealed that better emotion perception skills were associated with more adaptive and less maladaptive ward behavior among inpatients with chronic schizophrenia. In a third study, emotion perception had weak to modest relationships with social skill, as measured with unstructured role plays, among stabilized outpatients with schizophrenia. A similar relationship, albeit weaker, was found in a chronically ill inpatient sample. Overall, these studies suggest that emotion perception skills have a more consistent relationship with ward behavior than with social skills among persons with schizophrenia. Future work needs to address the following issues regarding the relationship between emotion perception and social functioning in schizophrenia: Does emotion perception contribute independent variance to social behavior beyond other social-cognitive measures? Can we develop measures of social cognition and social functioning that are more ecologically valid than those currently in existence?
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