Table 2.

Correlations Among the Social Cognitive Measures and the Negative Symptom Measures*

Pearson Correlation Coefficients	PANSS Negative	SANS Flattening/Blunting	SANS Alogia	SANS Avolition/Apathy	SANS Anhedonia/Asociality	SAT-MC	BLERT	Hinting	BORRTI Egocentricity	MSCEIT-ME
PANSS negative	1
SANS Flattening/ blunting	0.810**	1
SANS alogia	0.611**	0.564**	1
SANS Avolition/ apathy	0.492**	0.401**	0.214*	1
SANS Anhedonia/ asociality	0.530**	0.304*	0.254*	0.435**	1
+SAT-MC	0.041	−0.104	−0.053	0.076	0.249*	1
+BLERT	0.078	0.028	−0.040	0.136	−0.040	0.344**	1
+Hinting	−0.204*	−0.207*	−0.267*	−0.096	−0.121	0.140	0.207*	1
BORRTTI  egocentricity	−0.085	−0.073	0.078	−0.004	.074	−0.162	−0.406**	0.000	1
+MSCEIT-ME	−0.03	−0.07	0.002	−0.021	−.141	0.298**	0.360**	0.222*	−0.276*	1

Note: PANSS Negative, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, negative component score; SANS, Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms; SAT-MC, Social Attribution Task—Multiple Choice, correct score; BLERT, Bell Lysaker Emotion Recognition Test, correct score; Hinting, The Hinting Task, total score; BORRTI Egocentricity, Bell Object Relations Reality Testing Inventory, Egocentricity subscale; MSCEIT-ME, Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test—Managing Emotions Branch. + Higher scores represent better performance.

^**Correlation is significant at the .01 level (2 tailed).

^*Correlation is significant at the .05 level (2 tailed).