Happiness is a core dimension of a person's life, related to both functioning and success. As patients with
schizophrenia experience marked functional deficits, it would be informative to investigate their level of happiness.
There are limited data currently available, perhaps due to the longstanding belief that anhedonia is an
inherent feature of this illness. The present study set out to specifically assess happiness in schizophrenia in
relation to both clinical and functional measures of outcome.
Method: Thirty-one first-episode remitted patients and 29 age- and sex-matched controls participated in the
study. Patients' clinical status was assessed and a series of self-report questionnaires were used to measure
levels of happiness, life satisfaction, success and functioning in both patients and controls.
Results: Patients experienced marked functional impairment versus healthy controls (pb0.001), while
reporting comparable levels of happiness (p= 0.113) and satisfaction with life (p=0.350). In the patient
group, we found that higher happiness ratings were significantly associated with less depression, less negative
symptoms, less social withdrawal, greater life satisfaction, and higher social and occupational functioning.
Both cognitive functioning and insight had no significant direct effects on ratings of happiness in the
patient group.
Conclusions: Despite marked functional impairment, individuals with first-episode schizophrenia are as
happy as controls. Mechanisms that might allow for this are discussed, as are the implications for rehabilitation
efforts that assume an individual holds to the same drives and goals as before the illness onset and/or is
unhappy with their present functional status.
Happiness is a core dimension of a person's life, related to both functioning and success. As patients withschizophrenia experience marked functional deficits, it would be informative to investigate their level of happiness.There are limited data currently available, perhaps due to the longstanding belief that anhedonia is aninherent feature of this illness. The present study set out to specifically assess happiness in schizophrenia inrelation to both clinical and functional measures of outcome.Method: Thirty-one first-episode remitted patients and 29 age- and sex-matched controls participated in thestudy. Patients' clinical status was assessed and a series of self-report questionnaires were used to measurelevels of happiness, life satisfaction, success and functioning in both patients and controls.Results: Patients experienced marked functional impairment versus healthy controls (pb0.001), whilereporting comparable levels of happiness (p= 0.113) and satisfaction with life (p=0.350). In the patientgroup, we found that higher happiness ratings were significantly associated with less depression, less negativesymptoms, less social withdrawal, greater life satisfaction, and higher social and occupational functioning.Both cognitive functioning and insight had no significant direct effects on ratings of happiness in thepatient group.Conclusions: Despite marked functional impairment, individuals with first-episode schizophrenia are asมีความสุขเป็นตัวควบคุม กลไกที่อาจทำให้นี้จะกล่าวถึง เป็นผลการฟื้นฟูสมรรถภาพความพยายามที่ถือว่าบุคคลมีเป้าหมายเป็นก่อนเริ่มมีอาการเจ็บป่วยและไดรฟ์เดียวกัน หรือเป็นความสุขกับสถานะทำงานอยู่
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