Castelli Luigi, D'Alpaos Francesca, Carraro Luciana, Pavan Florencia, Galfano Giovanni, Forti Bruno
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.
Psychopathology. 2017;50(5):342-346. doi: 10.1159/000479882. Epub 2017 Sep 7.
Social cognition is severely impaired in schizophrenia. Emotion processing, attributional biases, and theory of mind are often impaired, as well as the understanding of shared social knowledge. So far, little is known about stereotype knowledge and endorsement in schizophrenia.
White patients with schizophrenia and matched healthy respondents reported both their personal beliefs and the predicted beliefs of other people toward Black (study 1) and Gypsy individuals (study 2).
Results showed that respondents in the clinical sample displayed less stereotype endorsement as compared to the matched healthy respondents. Most importantly, the contents of the responses provided by the 2 samples were strongly overlapped.
Findings indicate that individuals with schizophrenia tend to hold less negative attitudes toward stigmatized outgroups and, most notably, that knowledge about culturally transmitted stereotypes is relatively preserved in schizophrenia. Future research should address the generalizability of the findings in relation to the perception of other stigmatized social groups.
精神分裂症患者的社会认知严重受损。情绪加工、归因偏差、心理理论以及对共享社会知识的理解常常受到损害。到目前为止，关于精神分裂症患者的刻板印象知识和认同了解甚少。
患有精神分裂症的白人患者及相匹配的健康受访者报告了他们自己的个人信念以及其他人对黑人（研究1）和吉普赛人（研究2）的预期信念。
结果显示，与相匹配的健康受访者相比，临床样本中的受访者表现出较少的刻板印象认同。最重要的是，两个样本提供的回答内容有很大重叠。
研究结果表明，精神分裂症患者对受污名化的外群体往往持有较少的负面态度，最值得注意的是，在精神分裂症中，关于文化传播的刻板印象的知识相对得以保留。未来的研究应探讨这些发现与对其他受污名化社会群体的认知相关的普遍性。
