Table 2.
Summary of ratings (Means and SDs), averaged across target emotions, for the forensic patients with schizophrenia and the control group, with F values of the comparison.
| Clinical | Control | Group effects | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identification (baseline sentences) | |||||
| Prosody | Semantic | Prosody | Semantic | ||
| Target-emotion-present | 4.5 (1) | 4.8 (0.7) | 5.0 (1) | 5.5 (0.7) | |
| Target-emotion-absent | 2.5 (0.7) | 2.5 (0.6) | 2.2 (0.7) | 2.2 (0.6) | |
| Group X Identification (target-emotion-present vs. target-emotion-absent) | F(1, 38) = 12.5, p = 0.001, ηp2 = 0.25 | ||||
| Selective attention | |||||
| Congruent | 5.1 (0.8) | 5.3 (0.5) | 5.5 (0.8) | 5.7 (0.5) | |
| Incongruent | 4.7 (0.7) | 4.2 (0.7) | 5.5 (0.7) | 5.5 (0.8) | |
| Group X Selective Attention (congruent vs. incongruent) | F(1, 38) = 14.5, p < 0.001, = 0.28 | ||||
| Integration | |||||
| Congruent sentences | 4.9 (0.8) | 5.5 (0.8) | |||
| Prosodic sentences | 3.8 (0.6) | 4.5 (0.6) | |||
| Semantic sentences | 3.0 (0.9) | 3.3 (0.9) | |||
| Group X Linear trend (congruent > prosodic > semantic) | F(1, 38) = 1.0, p =0.32 | ||||
| Target-emotion-present Average | 3.9 (0.5) | 4.5 (0.5) | F(1, 38) = 10.7, p = 0.002, = 0.22 | ||
| Target-emotion-present Anger | 3.9 (0.7) | 4.9 (0.7) | F(1, 38) = 20.9, p < 0.001, = 0.36 | ||
| Target-emotion-present Sadness | 4.0 (0.7) | 4.7 (0.8) | F(1, 38) = 7.7, p = 0.009, = 0.17 | ||
| Target-emotion-present Happiness | 3.8 (0.5) | 3.8 (0.6) | F(1, 38) = 0.26, p = 0.61 | ||
| Target-emotion-absent | 2.4 (0.6) | 2.0 (0.6) | F(1, 38) = 3.61 p = 0.065, = 0.09 | ||