@article{ref1,
title="Further Exploration of Personal and Social Functioning: The Role of Interpersonal Violence, Service Engagement, and Social Network",
journal="Journal of nervous and mental disease",
year="2019",
author="Talevi, Dalila and Pacitti, Francesca and Costa, Manuela and Rossi, Alessandro and Collazzoni, Alberto and Crescini, Claudio and Rossi, Rodolfo",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Social functioning (SF) has mainly been studied in major psychoses in relation to symptom severity, but other factors may interfere with the achievement of a functional remission. The aim of this study is to explore interpersonal violence (IV), service engagement (SE), and social network (SN), together with demographics, as predictors of SF in a sample of subjects with severe mental illness (SMI). Consecutive adult inpatients were evaluated using self-report and clinician-rated questionnaires. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that IV, SE, SN, male sex, and illness duration explained 39.1% of SF variance in people affected by SMI. IV was the strongest predictor, followed by sex and duration of illness. Lifetime expression of violence is a stronger predictor than lifetime exposure to violence. Positive SE and SN were found to predict SF, whereas age was not associated. This study underlines the need of other non-symptom-related variables for the comprehension of SF in mental disorders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3018",
doi="10.1097/NMD.0000000000001036",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001036"
}