scholarly journals The relationship between experiential deficits of negative symptoms and subjective quality of life in schizophrenia

2016 ◽  
Vol 176 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 387-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Savill ◽  
S. Orfanos ◽  
U. Reininghaus ◽  
T. Wykes ◽  
R. Bentall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Subjective Quality ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals S237. MODERATORS AND RELATIONSHIPS OF COGNITION AND SUBJECTIVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S129-S129
Author(s):  
Eric Tan ◽  
Susan Rossell ◽  
Stuart Lee
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Subjective Quality ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Positive Symptom ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background The relationship between cognitive impairments and subjective quality of life (sQOL) in schizophrenia remains indeterminate, relative to studies of objective QOL (oQOL), despite much previous work. This study sought to better characterise the cognition-sQOL relationship in schizophrenia by 1) examining associations between factor analysis-derived cognitive domains and sQOL, 2) investigating if these domains predicted sQOL over other demographic and clinical variables, and 3) exploring if clinical, demographic and functional variables moderated the significant relationships. Methods 47 schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder patients (age: M=43.72, SD=11.35) and 48 healthy controls (age: M=39.82, SD=13.89) were assessed. QOL was measured using the Lehman’s QOL Interview. Composite scores were created to represent oQOL and sQOL, and factor analysis (principal axis factoring with varimax rotation) assessed for latent domains within 14 cognitive tasks. Symptomatology was assessed using the PANSS and MADRS. Pearson’s correlations and a stepwise linear regression were conducted to examine the associations between cognition and sQOL before the moderation analyses. Results Three cognitive domains were derived: visuospatial planning, verbal linguistic and inhibition switching. Only tasks comprising the verbal linguistic cognitive domain were significantly associated with, and predicted, sQOL (p<.05). Moderation analyses revealed that the direction of this relationship differed between patients and healthy controls (p<.05), and was moderated in patients only by positive symptom severity (p<.05). Discussion The relationship between cognition and sQOL in schizophrenia is determined by, and more associated with, meaning-based cognitions. It is affected by symptomatology, notably positive symptoms, which lead to worsening sQOL among those with more intact verbal linguistic processing.

scholarly journals Subjective quality of life of informal caregivers aged 50–69 in Poland

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-65
Author(s):  
Anita Abramowska-Kmon ◽  
Magdalena Maciejasz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Subjective Quality ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Stress Burden ◽  
The Relationship

Providing informal care to adults, especially elderly people, may affect many aspects of caregivers’ life, such as: physical and mental health, financial situation, social contacts, etc. Supporting dependent seniors is associated to a higher level of stress, burden and depression as well as higher mortality. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between caregiving for adults and the subjective quality of life among Poles aged 50–69. We took into account not only the fact of providing care to adult people, but also its beginning, continuation and ending between waves. We assumed that subjective quality of life may be expressed by two variables: one describing life satisfaction, and the second one – loneliness. We used the panel subsample from the Generation and Gender Surveys (GGS) carried out in Poland in 2010/2011 and in 2014. We found a negative effect of stopping caregiving between waves on wellbeing of women-carers, which may be related to the loss of a close person. Moreover, providing care for a longer period of time increases loneliness, which confirms that providing support to others may lead to isolation and smaller social networks.

The subjective quality of life in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenic patients

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 346-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Delamillieure ◽  
Dominique Ochoa-Torres ◽  
Thierry Vasse ◽  
Perrine Brazo ◽  
Raphaël Gourevitch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Subjective Quality ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
General Psychopathology ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

AbstractWe assessed the subjective quality of life (QOL) of 30 deficit schizophrenic patients compared to 112 nondeficit schizophrenic patients. The deficit patients did not differ in term of QOL, total score of positive symptoms, general psychopathology from the nondeficit patients. This result suggested an absence of impact of primary negative symptoms on the subjective QOL in schizophrenic patients.

scholarly journals Subjective Quality of Life in the Psychology of Poverty

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-218
Author(s):  
I.A. Shapoval
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Subjective Quality ◽  
Survivor Guilt ◽  
Subjective Quality Of Life ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents a theoretical introduction to the discussion of the subjective quality of life for carriers of psychology of poverty. We revealed the socio-cultural determinants of subjective quality of life, systematize its psychological components and factors of its high level. We describe a set of characteristics of psychology of poverty, including the sense of displacement from normal life, hopelessness, fatalism, deprivation, social envy, metapathology of personality, lack of subjectivity, responsibility, an outsider position, survivor guilt complex, and so on. On the criterion of the relationship to own life we revealed types of carriers of psychology of poverty: a passive-contemplative, passive-aggressive, pseudocompensatory-devalued, infantile, anomic. We analyzed the specificity of reflection and benchmarking of carriers of psychology of poverty as a cognitive and affective strategies to assess the quality of own lives, focused on the maintenance of self-esteem.

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