coping skills (including social skills)
and social support are hypothesized to reduce the effects of stress
on exacerbating psychotic symptoms; thus, SST was expected to
have the smallest effect on the most distal outcomes of other
(nonnegative) symptoms and relapse. We anticipated that the impact
of SST on negative symptoms would fall between its effects
on psychosocial functioning and other symptoms because measures
of negative symptoms typically include some, but not all,
items related to social adjustment. For example, the Scale for the
Assessment of Negative Symptoms (Andreasen, 1984) and the
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (Kay, Opler, & Fiszbein,
1987) both contain items related to flattening of affect (i.e., not
psychosocial functioning), whereas the Scale for the Assessment
coping skills (including social skills)and social support are hypothesized to reduce the effects of stresson exacerbating psychotic symptoms; thus, SST was expected tohave the smallest effect on the most distal outcomes of other(nonnegative) symptoms and relapse. We anticipated that the impactof SST on negative symptoms would fall between its effectson psychosocial functioning and other symptoms because measuresof negative symptoms typically include some, but not all,items related to social adjustment. For example, the Scale for theAssessment of Negative Symptoms (Andreasen, 1984) and thePositive and Negative Syndrome Scale (Kay, Opler, & Fiszbein,1987) both contain items related to flattening of affect (i.e., notpsychosocial functioning), whereas the Scale for the Assessment
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