A personality trait that often elicits poor and uneasy interpersonal relationships is interpersonal sensitivity. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and psychosocial functioning in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis as compared to help-seeking individuals who screened negative for an ultra-high risk of psychosis. A total sample of 147 adolescents and young adult who were help seeking for emerging mental health problems participated in the study. The sample was divided into two groups: 39 individuals who met criteria for an ultra-high-risk mental state (UHR), and 108 (NS). The whole sample completed the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure (IPSM) and the Global Functioning: Social and Role Scale (GF:SS; GF:RS). Mediation analysis was used to explore whether attenuated negative symptoms mediated the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and social functioning. Individuals with UHR state showed higher IPSM scores and lower GF:SS and GF:RS scores than NS participants. A statistically negative significant correlation between two IPSM subscales (Interpersonal Awareness and Timidity) and GF:SS was found in both groups. Our results also suggest that the relationship between the aforementioned aspects of interpersonal sensitivity and social functioning was not mediated by negative prodromal symptoms. This study suggests that some aspects of interpersonal sensitivity were associated with low level of social functioning. Assessing and treating interpersonal sensitivity may be a promising therapeutic target to improve social functioning in young help-seeking individuals. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Interpersonal sensitivity and functioning impairment in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis / Masillo, Alice; Valmaggia, L. R.; Saba, Riccardo; Brandizzi, MARTINA BUSSAGLIA; Lindau, J. F.; Solfanelli, Andrea; Curto, Martina; Narilli, Flaminia; Telesforo, CARLA LUDOVICA; Kotzalidis, G. D.; Di Pietro, D.; D’Alema, M.; Girardi, Paolo; FIORI NASTRO, Paolo. - In: EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 1018-8827. - STAMPA. - 25:1(2016), pp. 7-16. [10.1007/s00787-015-0692-6]

Interpersonal sensitivity and functioning impairment in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis

MASILLO, ALICE;SABA, RICCARDO;BRANDIZZI, MARTINA BUSSAGLIA;SOLFANELLI, ANDREA;CURTO, MARTINA;NARILLI, FLAMINIA;TELESFORO, CARLA LUDOVICA;GIRARDI, Paolo;FIORI NASTRO, Paolo
2016

Abstract

A personality trait that often elicits poor and uneasy interpersonal relationships is interpersonal sensitivity. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and psychosocial functioning in individuals at ultra-high risk for psychosis as compared to help-seeking individuals who screened negative for an ultra-high risk of psychosis. A total sample of 147 adolescents and young adult who were help seeking for emerging mental health problems participated in the study. The sample was divided into two groups: 39 individuals who met criteria for an ultra-high-risk mental state (UHR), and 108 (NS). The whole sample completed the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure (IPSM) and the Global Functioning: Social and Role Scale (GF:SS; GF:RS). Mediation analysis was used to explore whether attenuated negative symptoms mediated the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and social functioning. Individuals with UHR state showed higher IPSM scores and lower GF:SS and GF:RS scores than NS participants. A statistically negative significant correlation between two IPSM subscales (Interpersonal Awareness and Timidity) and GF:SS was found in both groups. Our results also suggest that the relationship between the aforementioned aspects of interpersonal sensitivity and social functioning was not mediated by negative prodromal symptoms. This study suggests that some aspects of interpersonal sensitivity were associated with low level of social functioning. Assessing and treating interpersonal sensitivity may be a promising therapeutic target to improve social functioning in young help-seeking individuals. © 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
2016
interpersonal sensitivity; negative prodromal symptoms; social functioning; ultra-high risk; psychiatry and mental Health; pediatrics, perinatology and child health; philosophy; developmental and educational psychology
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Interpersonal sensitivity and functioning impairment in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis / Masillo, Alice; Valmaggia, L. R.; Saba, Riccardo; Brandizzi, MARTINA BUSSAGLIA; Lindau, J. F.; Solfanelli, Andrea; Curto, Martina; Narilli, Flaminia; Telesforo, CARLA LUDOVICA; Kotzalidis, G. D.; Di Pietro, D.; D’Alema, M.; Girardi, Paolo; FIORI NASTRO, Paolo. - In: EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 1018-8827. - STAMPA. - 25:1(2016), pp. 7-16. [10.1007/s00787-015-0692-6]
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