Relationship between Positive and Negative Symptoms and Emotional Regulation in Patients with Schizophrenia
Introduction: Schizophrenia is an endogenous mental disorder characterized by the presence of positive and negative symptoms of the disorder, which certainly affects their emotional life.
Objective: The main objective of the research was to determine the relationship between positive, negative symptoms and emotional regulation in patients with schizophrenia.
Method: The research involved 40 male and female respondents aged 25 to 45, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia according to the diagnostic criteria - ICD 10. During the research, we used the Scale for the Assessment of the Positive and Negative Syndrome of Schizophrenia - PANSS and Emotion Regulation Scale – ERQ. The statistical analysis of the data was done with the software package SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science, version 20).
Results: During the research we determined that the mean value of the scale of positive symptoms in our studied population was M=25,513, the scale of negative symptoms had a mean value of M=29,313, the cognitive assessment of emotions had a mean value of M=24,613, while in expressive suppression we obtained a mean value of M=18,575. Using Spearman 's correlation, we determined that there was a statistically significant negative correlation between positive symptoms and cognitive evaluation of emotions (rs =-.804, p<.01), positive symptoms and expressive suppression (rs =-.766, p< .05), negative symptoms and cognitive evaluation of emotions (rs =-.827, p<.05), negative symptoms and expressive suppression (rs =.807, p<.01).
Conclusion: Emotional functioning is one of the basic characteristics of the disease, which, together with psychopathological symptoms, affects the daily functioning of patients with schizophrenia.