Abstract
The results of studies on the interrelation of autobiographical memory with the features of the inward picture of the disease among offenders with schizophrenia. There were examined 17 patients with schizophrenia with criminal history, under compulsory treatment. The comparison group consisted of 17 patients with schizophrenia with prosocial behavior and 18 mentally healthy individuals without criminal history. The following techniques aimed to study the inward picture of disease were used: the types of attitude towards disease, symptom checklist-90-revised, life-line (for studying the autobiographical memory), metaphor of the past, functions of autobiographical memory, the questionnaire of self-attitude and balanced inventory of desirable responding. Specific interrelationships between the types of attitude to the disease and perceived symptoms with the peculiarities of functioning of autobiographical memory were revealed. It was found that patients have less realistic possibilities of consciousness with reduced mediation of autobiographical memory representations of the disease at the higher level of severity of distress due to the perceived symptoms and to the less realistic and adaptive types of attitude to disease. It was discovered that offenders with schizophrenia are characterized by the predominance of negative perceptions of past experience, the fragmentation of attitude to disease with low awareness of their symptoms, which is associated with a lower contribution to the mediation of ideas about the disease of functional constructs of autobiographical memory.
Highlights
In the fairly extensive contextual space of psychological studies of the problem of the inward picture of the disease (IPD) as a person’s reflection and self-presentation about their disease [1] among people with schizophrenia, the influence of autobiographical memory (AM) on the features of IPD is poorly studied.The appeal to autobiographical memories (AM) and possibilities of AM refers to internalized forms of internal polylogue based on the appropriate cost-sharing person’s multi-temporal memories about itself
These results indicate homogeneity and interrelated importance of each distinct function of AM for the person’s activity
The analysis of crosstabs revealed (p
Summary
The appeal to autobiographical memories (AM) and possibilities of AM refers to internalized forms of internal polylogue based on the appropriate cost-sharing person’s multi-temporal memories about itself (multi-temporal self). There were identified 4 functions of AM [2,3]. Self-regulative function means tendency to refer to AM as a mean of regulation of mental state. Pragmatic function focused on the retrieval of autobiographical experience (life lessons). Communicative function represents the willingness to refer to personal memories during interacting with others and is aimed at maintaining the active communication with the participants. Existential function (maturity of AM) means a high level of voluntariness when referring to personal memories, and it is linked with the awareness of identity, personal uniqueness and temporal integration of the personality
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