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Negative symptoms: associations with defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, and maladaptive schemas in youth and young adults at-risk for psychosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2021

Daniel J. Devoe Open the ORCID record for Daniel J. Devoe [Opens in a new window] ,
K.S. Cadenhead ,
Barbara Cornblatt ,
Eric Granholm  and
Jean Addington
Daniel J. Devoe
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
K.S. Cadenhead
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Barbara Cornblatt
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Long Island, NY, USA
Eric Granholm
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
Jean Addington*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
*
*Corresponding author. Email: jmadding@ucalgary.ca
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Abstract

Background:

Investigations into possible mechanisms that may contribute to the development, maintenance, and exacerbation of negative symptoms are needed. Defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, and early maladaptive schemas have been shown to contribute to negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Likewise, negative symptoms occur in those at clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis.

Aims:

The aim of this study was to determine if negative symptoms were associated with defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, and early maladaptive schemas in CHR participants of a group therapy intervention study.

Method:

All CHR participants (n = 203; 99 males, 104 females) were recruited as part of a three-site randomized control trial: Recovery through Group Study (ReGroup). Negative symptoms, defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy and early maladaptive schemas were assessed by trained clinical raters. Mediation analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between defeatist beliefs, self-efficacy, functioning, and negative symptoms.

Results:

The majority of CHR youth (72.9%) had at least one negative symptom of moderate to above moderate severity at baseline. In multiple mediation analyses, both asocial beliefs and social self-efficacy mediated the effects of social functioning on negative symptoms. Finally, defeatist performance attitudes significantly mediated the effects of role functioning on negative symptoms.

Conclusions:

These results highlight the importance of considering beliefs and attitudes in relation to functioning and severity of negative symptoms. Psychosocial interventions may wish to target beliefs and attitudes in effort to reduce negative symptoms and improve functioning in CHR youth.

Keywords

beliefsclinical high risk for psychosisnegative symptomspsychosisself-efficacy
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , May 2022 , pp. 298 - 311
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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