PMID- 37733030 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20231107 LR - 20231113 IS - 1464-0619 (Electronic) IS - 1354-6805 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 5 DP - 2023 Sep TI - Contrasting social knowledge and theory of mind patterns in adults with personality disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and healthy controls. PG - 361-376 LID - 10.1080/13546805.2023.2259021 [doi] AB - INTRODUCTION: Personality disorders (PD) and schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) are distinct conditions displaying common symptoms, like impairments in social cognition, that make them hard to distinguish, especially in severe cases. To date, few studies have compared theory of mind skills in these two disorders, and none have compared social knowledge skills. This study aims to compare the social cognitive abilities of patients with these conditions. METHOD: Non-parametric analyses of covariance were used to compare severe PD patients (n = 37), SSD patients (n = 44), and healthy controls (HC; n = 49) on the Social Knowledge Test and two measures of theory of mind: the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test and the Combined Stories Test, which incorporates items from various widely used tests. RESULTS: While no significant group differences were found on the Social Knowledge Test, SSD patients performed lower than the HC group on both theory of mind tests. PD patients only had lower performance than the HC group on specific items from the Combined Stories Test. CONCLUSIONS: PD and SSD patients demonstrated distinctive patterns of social cognitive impairments, with items of greater complexity or with an affective orientation being the most discriminant for PD. FAU - Lampron, Mireille AU - Lampron M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7846-8939 AD - School of Psychology, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Savard, Claudia AU - Savard C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1286-0257 AD - CERVO Brain Research Centre, Quebec, Canada. AD - Department of Educational Fundamentals and Practices, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Bernier, Allyson AU - Bernier A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6504-4336 AD - School of Psychology, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Payant, Maude AU - Payant M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3731-7218 AD - Department of Psychology, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada. FAU - Sabourin, Stephane AU - Sabourin S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9683-6176 AD - School of Psychology, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. FAU - Achim, Amelie M AU - Achim AM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7660-0008 AD - CERVO Brain Research Centre, Quebec, Canada. AD - Department of Psychiatry and neurosciences, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. AD - VITAM - Centre de recherche en sante durable, Quebec, Canada. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20231105 PL - England TA - Cogn Neuropsychiatry JT - Cognitive neuropsychiatry JID - 9713497 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Adult MH - *Schizophrenia MH - *Theory of Mind MH - Social Perception MH - *Cognitive Dysfunction MH - Personality Disorders OTO - NOTNLM OT - Social cognition OT - personality disorders OT - schizophrenia spectrum disorders OT - social knowledge OT - theory of mind EDAT- 2023/09/21 12:43 MHDA- 2023/11/07 06:45 CRDT- 2023/09/21 11:03 PHST- 2023/11/07 06:45 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/21 12:43 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/21 11:03 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/13546805.2023.2259021 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cogn Neuropsychiatry. 2023 Sep;28(5):361-376. doi: 10.1080/13546805.2023.2259021. Epub 2023 Nov 5.