Background: 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 the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome (APS). Method: A total sample of 147 adolescents and young adult who were help-seeking for emerging mental health problems participated to the study. The sample was divided into two groups: 39 APS who scored 18 or over on the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ) and met criteria for the Structured Interview for Prodromal Symptoms (SIPS), and 108 Negative Screening (NS) who scored 17 or less on PQ. The whole sample completed the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure (IPSM), the Global Functioning: Social and Role Scale (GF:SS; GF:RS) and the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF). Results: Individuals with APS showed higher IPSM scores and lower GF:SS, GF:RS and GAF scores than NS participants. A statistically significant correlation between interpersonal sensitivity and psychosocial functioning impairment was found among both groups. Conclusion: This study suggests interpersonal sensitivity was strongly associated with social functioning impairment. Considering that psychosocial functioning impairment was found to be associated with considerably decreased subjective quality of life within people with APS, detecting and treating subjective psychopathological aspects (i.e. interpersonal sensitivity) associated with it seems to be an important therapeutic target for APS.

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.

Interpersonal sensitivity and functioning impairment in the at risk syndrome for psychosis / Masillo, Alice; Valmaggia, L.; Saba, Riccardo; Brandizzi, MARTINA BUSSAGLIA; Lindau, J. F.; Curto, Martina; Stefanelli, A.; Narilli, Flaminia; Dipietro, D.; D'Alema, M.; Girardi, Paolo; FIORI NASTRO, Paolo. - In: EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 1751-7885. - STAMPA. - vol. 8, supp. 1:1(2014), pp. 54-54. (Intervento presentato al convegno 9th Interantional Conference on Early Psychosis tenutosi a Tokyo nel 17/19 novembre 2014).

Interpersonal sensitivity and functioning impairment in the at risk syndrome for psychosis

MASILLO, ALICE;SABA, RICCARDO;BRANDIZZI, MARTINA BUSSAGLIA;CURTO, MARTINA;NARILLI, FLAMINIA;GIRARDI, Paolo;FIORI NASTRO, Paolo
2014

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Background: 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 the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome (APS). Method: A total sample of 147 adolescents and young adult who were help-seeking for emerging mental health problems participated to the study. The sample was divided into two groups: 39 APS who scored 18 or over on the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ) and met criteria for the Structured Interview for Prodromal Symptoms (SIPS), and 108 Negative Screening (NS) who scored 17 or less on PQ. The whole sample completed the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure (IPSM), the Global Functioning: Social and Role Scale (GF:SS; GF:RS) and the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF). Results: Individuals with APS showed higher IPSM scores and lower GF:SS, GF:RS and GAF scores than NS participants. A statistically significant correlation between interpersonal sensitivity and psychosocial functioning impairment was found among both groups. Conclusion: This study suggests interpersonal sensitivity was strongly associated with social functioning impairment. Considering that psychosocial functioning impairment was found to be associated with considerably decreased subjective quality of life within people with APS, detecting and treating subjective psychopathological aspects (i.e. interpersonal sensitivity) associated with it seems to be an important therapeutic target for APS.
2014
9th Interantional Conference on Early Psychosis
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.
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Interpersonal sensitivity and functioning impairment in the at risk syndrome for psychosis / Masillo, Alice; Valmaggia, L.; Saba, Riccardo; Brandizzi, MARTINA BUSSAGLIA; Lindau, J. F.; Curto, Martina; Stefanelli, A.; Narilli, Flaminia; Dipietro, D.; D'Alema, M.; Girardi, Paolo; FIORI NASTRO, Paolo. - In: EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY. - ISSN 1751-7885. - STAMPA. - vol. 8, supp. 1:1(2014), pp. 54-54. (Intervento presentato al convegno 9th Interantional Conference on Early Psychosis tenutosi a Tokyo nel 17/19 novembre 2014).
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