[Features of the self-structure and source monitoring disorders in people with schizophrenia].

AIM

The aim of this study was to explore relationships between self-structure and source monitoring in people with schizophrenia.

METHOD

Forty-one outpatients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of schizophrenic disorders participated in the study. Subjects were asked to select personality trait words from a checklist that described themselves, themselves as they were five years ago, and what most people are like. They also performed a source monitoring task and were assessed on current psychiatric symptoms.

RESULTS

Patients who lacked a sense of continuity over time tended to attribute self-generated items to an external source. Subjects who had a less clearly defined self-structure and whose self-representation was less differentiated from others-representation tended to falsely attribute items to themselves.

CONCLUSION

The basic features of self-structure were significantly related to some problems in discrimination of self-generated stimuli in the source monitoring task.