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01-06-2017 | Original Paper
The relationships of personal resources with symptom severity and psychosocial functioning in persons with schizophrenia: results from the Italian Network for Research on Psychoses study
Authors:
Alessandro Rossi, Silvana Galderisi, Paola Rocca, Alessandro Bertolino, Armida Mucci, Paola Rucci, Dino Gibertoni, Eugenio Aguglia, Mario Amore, Ileana Andriola, Antonello Bellomo, Massimo Biondi, Gaetano Callista, Anna Comparelli, Liliana Dell’Osso, Massimo Di Giannantonio, Andrea Fagiolini, Carlo Marchesi, Palmiero Monteleone, Cristiana Montemagni, Cinzia Niolu, Giuseppe Piegari, Federica Pinna, Rita Roncone, Paolo Stratta, Elena Tenconi, Antonio Vita, Patrizia Zeppegno, Mario Maj, Italian Network for Research on Psychoses
Published in:
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
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Issue 4/2017
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Abstract
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.