TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Violent offending in males with or without schizophrenia: a role for social cognition?
JO  - Schizophrenia bulletin
A1  - Vaskinn, Anja
A1  - Rokicki, Jaroslav
A1  - Bell, Christina
A1  - Tesli, Natalia
A1  - Bang, Nina
A1  - Hjell, Gabriela
A1  - Fischer-Vieler, Thomas
A1  - Haukvik, Unn K.
A1  - Friestad, Christine
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0586-7614
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad151
ID  - ref1
ER  -