Park Il Ho, Park Sun Young, Choi Sulkee, Lee Soo Young, Kim Jae-Jin
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, International St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic Kwandong University, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Institute of Behavioral Science in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Psychiatry Investig. 2017 Jul;14(4):463-470. doi: 10.4306/pi.2017.14.4.463. Epub 2017 Jul 11.
Conformity is defined as the act of adjusting one's behavior to match the social responses of others. Patients with schizophrenia often adjust their maladaptive behaviors by conforming in group treatment settings. This study aimed to examine whether the opinions of group members influence conformity of patients with schizophrenia who attend day-hospital programs.
Nineteen patients with schizophrenia from four different day-hospital programs and 23 healthy controls from four different social clubs completed the homographic meaning choice task under conditions of prior exposure to the pseudo-opinions of their group members, strangers, and unknown information sources. Group influences on conformity were observed when the level of group cohesiveness was high and the level of intimacy was low across participant groups.
Controls did not exhibit a significant effect of group influence on conformity, whereas patients were significantly influenced by their group members when making conformity-based decisions despite significantly lower intimacy and cohesiveness levels.
These findings suggest that unlike controls, patients with schizophrenia tend to respond with conformity when influenced by the opinions of their affiliated group. In patients with schizophrenia group conformity may be used to select a more accurate decision and to enhance feelings of affiliation among them.
从众被定义为调整自己的行为以匹配他人社会反应的行为。精神分裂症患者在团体治疗环境中常通过从众来调整其适应不良行为。本研究旨在探讨团体成员的意见是否会影响参加日间医院项目的精神分裂症患者的从众行为。
来自四个不同日间医院项目的19名精神分裂症患者和来自四个不同社交俱乐部的23名健康对照，在事先接触其团体成员、陌生人及未知信息源的伪意见的条件下，完成同形异义词意义选择任务。当各参与者群体的团体凝聚力水平高且亲密程度低时，观察团体对从众行为的影响。
对照组未表现出团体影响对从众行为的显著作用，而患者在做出基于从众的决策时，尽管亲密程度和凝聚力水平明显较低，但仍受到其团体成员的显著影响。
这些发现表明，与对照组不同，精神分裂症患者在受到所属团体意见影响时往往会表现出从众行为。在精神分裂症患者中，团体从众可能被用来做出更准确的决策并增强他们之间的归属感。
