Sarfati Y, Hardy-Baylé M C, Brunet E, Widlöcher D
Department de Psychiatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, France.
Schizophr Res. 1999 May 25;37(2):183-90. doi: 10.1016/s0920-9964(98)00154-6.
The ability to attribute intentions to others was studied in 13 disorganized and 13 non-disorganized schizophrenic patients, 13 depressed and 13 normal controls. Subjects were asked to complete 28 comic strips requiring theory of mind skills by choosing one out of three answer cards. The answer cards were simple pictures in a first condition and short sentences in a second condition. This study, which used the cognitive neuropsychological approach, underlies the existence of a link between disorganization patterns in schizophrenia and a deficit in the attribution of intentions to others, independently of the pictorial or verbal form of the mode of answering. In addition, results show that the non-disorganized schizophrenic group, depressed and normal controls perform similarly in both pictorial/verbal conditions. The influence of the absence/presence of verbal material on a task investigating theory of mind in schizophrenia is discussed.
对13名紊乱型和13名非紊乱型精神分裂症患者、13名抑郁症患者以及13名正常对照者进行了将意图归因于他人的能力研究。受试者被要求从三张答案卡片中选择一张，完成28幅需要心理理论技能的连环漫画。在第一种情况下，答案卡片是简单的图片，在第二种情况下是短句。这项采用认知神经心理学方法的研究表明，精神分裂症的紊乱模式与将意图归因于他人的缺陷之间存在联系，这与回答方式的图片或语言形式无关。此外，结果表明，非紊乱型精神分裂症组、抑郁症患者组和正常对照组在图片/语言两种情况下的表现相似。本文还讨论了有无语言材料对精神分裂症心理理论研究任务的影响。
