TY  - JOUR
AU  - Lucarini, Valeria
AU  - Cangemi, Francesco
AU  - Daniel, Benyamin Daniel
AU  - Lucchese, Jacopo
AU  - Paraboschi, Francesca
AU  - Cattani, Chiara
AU  - Marchesi, Carlo
AU  - Grice, Martine
AU  - Vogeley, Kai
AU  - Tonna, Matteo
TI  - Conversational metrics, psychopathological dimensions and self-disturbances in patients with schizophrenia
JO  - European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
VL  - 272
SN  - 1433-8491
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - FZJ-2021-03959
SP  - 997–1005
PY  - 2022
AB  - Difficulties in interpersonal communication, including conversational skill impairments, are core features of schizophrenia. However, very few studies have performed conversation analyses in a clinical population of schizophrenia patients. Here we investigate the conversational patterns of dialogues in schizophrenia patients to assess possible associations with symptom dimensions, subjective self-disturbances and social functioning. Thirty-five schizophrenia patients were administered the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Clinical Language Disorder Rating Scale (CLANG), the Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language and Communication (TLC), the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience Scale (EASE), and the Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS). Moreover, participants underwent a recorded semi-structured interview, to extract conversational variables. Conversational data were associated with negative symptoms and social functioning, but not with positive or disorganization symptoms. A significant positive correlation was found between “pause duration” and the EASE item “Spatialization of thought”. The present study suggests an association between conversational patterns and negative symptom dimension of schizophrenia. Moreover, our findings evoke a relationship between the natural fluidity of conversation and of the natural unraveling of thoughts.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 34476588
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000692046500002
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s00406-021-01329-w
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/901991
ER  -