Interpersonal Distance in Schizophrenic Patients: Relationship to Negative Syndrome  

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Ponizovsky, Alexander M. ; Modai, Ilan ; Salganik, Igor ; Nechamkin, Yakov

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Relations vol. 49 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 166-174.
Fulltext: 166.IR49.3.pdf (494.15KB)

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Background: Personal space is the area individuals maintain around themselves into which others cannot intrude without arousing discomfort. Objective: We tested the hypotheses that psychogical discanting of patients with schizophrenia would be a characteristic of 1) diagnosis and/or 2) syndrome. Methods: For this aim,30 schizophrenic and 30 age matching normal males established comfortable interpersonal distances for 20 word-stimuli representing family members, significant others, self-images, emotionally neutral and threatening surroundings. The distances were assesed by a paper and a pencil projective measure ,te Comfortable Interpersonal Distance scale and the patients psychophatological symtoms were quantified by the Positve and Negative Syndrom Scale. t-test ang correlational analyses were employed to examined the relationship between the parameters of interest. Results: The rank order (hierarchy) of preferable interpersonal distances of patients with schizophrenia was similar to that of formal subjects. At the same time,psychological distance from family members and themselves was substantially larger among the patients.There were no significant correlations between any kind of interpersonal dsitance and positive syndroms of schizophrenia,while negative syndroms showed significant inverse association with distances from emotionally neutral ang threatening figures and positive correlation with family member and self-images distances. Conclusion: the result suggest that the negative syndroms of schizophrenia attenuates the differences between interpersonal distances from generally close and distance persons.

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