THematic and cognitive responses of good premorbid schizophrenics to cues of nurturance and rejection.

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21 good premorbid schizophrenics and 21 matched controls were tested with pictures of mother, father, and peer figures represented in nurturant, ambiguous, and rejecting interaction with a boy-hero. The schizophrenics were found to have elevated reaction times to peer pictures following mother pictures (.01 level), obtained relatively low scores of p Nurturance (.05 level), produced flat gradients of p Nurturance as a function of cues varying from rejection to nurturance (.01 level), described mother figures as particularly rejecting (.05 level) and tended (.01 level) to produce their poorest responses to nurturant cues and their best responses to ambiguous scenes. It was suggested that good premorbids deny emotion and prejudge others as rejecting as a defense against emotional involvement. Rather than a specific "censure-cue deficit," schizophrenics exhibit deficit for cues of emotional involvement, in general. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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