The role of character, temperament and alexithymia in discrimination of positive and negative symptoms in the patients with schizophrenia

Bahari., Mohammad and Dr. A., Abolghasemi and Dr. M., Narimaniِ and Dr. A, . Zahed (2008) The role of character, temperament and alexithymia in discrimination of positive and negative symptoms in the patients with schizophrenia. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

Since research in several areas disorder etiology of schizophrenia has been done, but results in specific etiology has not achieved this disorder. However, research variables between personality disorder, schizophrenia and have shown a significant relationship. People with this disorder personality defects before and during the illness of the disease to their incidence. The aim of the present research determined the role of temperament, character and alexithymia in prediction of positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients. The research sample consisted of 100 schizophrenia patients with positive and negative symptoms which were selected by sampling method. To collect the data, structured clinical interviews based on DSM-IV and Scale Positive and Negative Symptoms and Scale alexithymia and Temperament and Character Inventory were used. Data was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple regression analyses and discrimination analysis. The results showed that temperament and character are related to negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients. The results of multiple regression showed dimensions of self– transcendence, cooperativeness and harm avoidance were found to be the best predictors for negative symptoms; While, self– transcendence and harm avoidance were found to be the best predictors for positive symptoms in schizophrenia patients. Also The research findings showed that the schizophrenia patients with negative symptoms had higher levels of alexithymia and its components in comparison with schizophrenia patients with positive symptoms. The results of discriminate analysis showed that explained 32 percent of variance of difficulty identifying feelings and externally oriented thinking for only function between groups of schizophrenia with positive and negative symptoms. These results suggest that the temperamental and character profiles of schizophrenia patients may well be of important prognostic value in the planning of cognitive enhancement therapy. On Based the findings can be concluded that schizophrenia patients in describe and identify of feelings and externally oriented thinking have more problems. Also, alexithymia provides to background negative symptoms of schizophrenia disease. It was suggested that alexithymia could be an effective early intervention for schizophrenia patients.

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