The role of social relatedness and self-beliefs in social functioning in first-episode psychosis: Are we overestimating the contribution of illness-related factors?
César González-BlanchLeonardo Adrián MedranoSarah BendallSimon D'AlfonsoDaniela CagliariniCarla McEneryShaunagh O'SullivanLee ValentineJohn F GleesonMario Alvarez-JimenezPublished in: European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists (2020)
The observed associations highlight the potential value of targeting social relatedness and self-beliefs to improve functional outcomes in FEP. Explanatory models of social functioning in FEP not accounting for social relatedness and self-beliefs might be overestimating the effect of the illness-related factors.