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dc.contributor.advisor | Moulden, Heather | - |
dc.contributor.author | Myers, Casey | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-18T16:24:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-18T16:24:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22277 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding the intentions of other people is critical for navigating the complex social interactions within our environment. Individuals with schizophrenia demonstrate difficulty relating to and recognizing the feelings, thoughts, and intentions of others – a construct known as social cognition. While many studies have investigated social cognition deficits in patients with schizophrenia, few have explored how these problems may contribute to social behaviour in this group, and violence specifically. Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia show specific deficits when asked to take the perspective of another person, and perhaps this may account for findings that this same group is more likely to commit a criminal act, including interpersonal violence, compared to the general population. The present study aims to test the hypothesis that social cognitive deficits may be related to violence by evaluating various aspects of neuropsychological functioning, and social cognition specifically, in individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. Twenty-two participants, 12 violent and 10 non-violent, completed a battery of psychometric tests that assessed neuropsychological functioning, emotion recognition ability, theory of mind ability, and attribution style. Although no significant group differences were found between the violent and non-violent participants, two interesting findings emerged. First, explaining social transgressions as a joke was a theme that emerged only in the violent group. Second, there was no relationship between one’s accuracy and confidence regarding emotion recognition performance in this group. These trends signal potential explanations for violence in this group, with respect to misinterpretation, and specifically how this is related to psychotic content. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.title | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL COGNITION DEFICITS AND VIOLENCE IN INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH A PSYCHOTIC DISORDER | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Neuroscience | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Science (MSc) | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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