Social anxiety and negative symptoms as the characteristics of patients with schizophrenia who show competence-performance discrepancy in social functioning.
Takahiro NemotoTakashi UchinoSayaka AikawaJunichi SaitoHiroshi MatsumotoTomoyuki FunatogawaTaiju YamaguchiNaoyuki KatagiriNaohisa TsujinoMasafumi MizunoPublished in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences (2019)
In patients who are capable, but do not perform well, negative symptoms may be involved in the discrepancy. Patients who are able to maintain themselves well despite low social competence appear to have milder social anxiety symptoms as compared to patients who are neither competent nor perform well.