@article{ref1,
title="Violent offending in males with or without schizophrenia: a role for social cognition?",
journal="Schizophrenia bulletin",
year="2023",
author="Vaskinn, Anja and Rokicki, Jaroslav and Bell, Christina and Tesli, Natalia and Bang, Nina and Hjell, Gabriela and Fischer-Vieler, Thomas and Haukvik, Unn K. and Friestad, Christine",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS: Reduced social cognition has been reported in individuals who have committed interpersonal violence. It is unclear if individuals with schizophrenia and a history of violence have larger impairments than violent individuals without psychosis and non-violent individuals with schizophrenia. We examined social cognition in two groups with violent offenses, comparing their performance to non-violent individuals with schizophrenia and healthy controls. STUDY DESIGN: Two social cognitive domains were assessed in four groups: men with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder with (SSD-V, n = 27) or without (SSD-NV, n = 42) a history of violence, incarcerated men serving preventive detention sentences (V, n = 22), and healthy male controls (HC, n = 76). Theory of mind (ToM) was measured with the Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC), body emotion perception with Emotion in Biological Motion (EmoBio) test. STUDY RESULTS: Kruskal-Wallis H-tests revealed overall group differences for social cognition. SSD-V had a global and clinically significant social cognitive impairment. V had a specific impairment, for ToM. Binary logistic regressions predicting violence category membership from social cognition and psychosis (SSD status) were conducted. The model with best fit, explaining 18%-25% of the variance, had ToM as the only predictor. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Social cognitive impairment was present in individuals with a history of violence, with larger and more widespread impairment seen in schizophrenia. ToM predicted violence category membership, psychosis did not. The results suggest a role for social cognition in understanding interpersonal violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0586-7614",
doi="10.1093/schbul/sbad151",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad151"
}