Abstract

Social dysfunction is generally considered as an essential feature of schizophrenia. Recent studies have found that symptom and cognitive deficits are one of the important factors in social dysfuction of schizophrenia. Present study explore what to extent these two factors are correlated with and what is the best predictor of schizophrenic patients' social dysfuction. 48 chronic schizophrenic inpatients were selected and PEI, WCST, PANSS were used for measuring social function, cognitive function and psychiatric symptom. The results show that three cognitive measurements except for persverative error and three symptom measurements are significant correlation with daily self-management and personal relationship of chronic schizophrenia. However general psychiatric symptom selected the best predictor of two social function area and negative symptom intermittently a good predictor in specific social area while cognitive measurements did not. Although the function scales are very limited to measure various function area and specific relationship or causal relationship of the variables are not found, it is noteworthy that the results support cognitive function and symptom are one of the important factors in social function of chronic schizophrenia and of them general psychiatric symptom is selected the best predictor. So more effective theraputic intervention in rehabilitation of chronic schizophrenics' social dysfunction is available.