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. 2022 Mar 2;8(1):12. doi: 10.1038/s41537-022-00223-1

Table 1.

Inter-correlations between social cognition and measures of IQ, psychopathology and level of functioning.

DART Vocabulary Block design PANSS positive PANSS negative PANSS general GAF
Whole sample (N = 213)
TASIT sincere

0.036

(p = 0.612)

0.026

(p = 0.709)

0.096

(p = 0.161)

0.005

(p = 0.941)

−0.011

(p = 0.875)

0.026

(p = 0.709)

0.031

(p = 0.663)

TASIT simple sarcasm

−0.073

(p = 0.300)

−0.044

(p = 0.527)

0.69

(p = 0.319)

−0.028

(p = 0.691)

−0.057

(p = 0.410)

−0.048

(p = 0.488)

0.029

(p = 0.684)

TASIT paradoxical sarcasm

0.096

(p = 0.174)

0.242**

(p < 0.001)

0.300**

(p < 0.001)

−0.307**

(p < 0.001)

−0.311**

(p < 0.001)

−0.321**

(p < 0.001)

0.362**

(p < 0.001)

Patients (N = 62)
TASIT sincere

−0.19

(p = 0.885)

0.108

(p = 0.403)

0.253**

(p = 0.047)

−0.157

(p = 0.223)

−0.340**

(p = 0.007)

−0.329**

(p = 0.009)

0.428**

(p = 0.001)

TASIT simple sarcasm

0.074

(p = 0.575)

0.096

(p = 0.456)

0.148

(p = 0.252)

−0.013

(p = 0.923)

0.078

(p = 0.549)

0.152

(p = 0.239)

−0.135

(p = 0.310)

TASIT paradoxical sarcasm

0.054

(p = 0.687)

0.327*

(p = 0.009)

0.371**

(p = 0.003)

−0.366**

(p = 0.003)

−0.356**

(p = 0.005)

−0.305**

(p = 0.016)

0.334**

(p = 0.010)

Unaffected co-twins (N = 53)
TASIT sincere

0.132

(p = 0.365)

−0.175

(p = 0.209)

−0.162

(p = 0.248)

0.167

(p = 0.236)

0.181

(p = 0.200)

0.034

(p = 0.810)

−0.151

(p = 0.289)

TASIT simple sarcasm

−0.180

(p = 0.215)

−0.159

(p = 0.254)

−0.022

(p = 0.878)

0.214

(p = 0.128)

0.058

(p = 0.685)

0.223

(p = 0.112)

−0.260

(p = 0.065)

TASIT paradoxical sarcasm

0.142

(p = 0.329)

0.320*

(p = 0.020)

0.332*

(p = 0.015)

−0.194

(p = 0.167)

−0.188

(p = 0.182)

−0.262

(p = 0.060)

0.322*

(p = 0.021)

Healthy controls (N = 98)
TASIT sincere

0.035

(p = 0.736)

0.078

(p = 0.448)

0.198

(p = 0.051)

−0.056

(p = 0.587)

0.001

(p = 0.991)

0.160

(p = 0.118)

0.029

(p = 0.783)

TASIT simple sarcasm

−0.100

(p = 0.329)

−0.119

(p = 0.245)

0.013

(p = 0.903)

0.149

(p = 0.146)

0.004

(p = 0.968)

0.018

(p = 0.863)

−0.057

(p = 0.591)

TASIT paradoxical sarcasm

0.168

(p = 0.101)

0.101

(p = 0.324)

0.110

(p = 0.282)

−0.110

(p = 0.282)

−0.154

(p = 0.133)

−0.104

(p = 0.310)

0.194

(p = 0.065)

Values represent spearman’s correlations.

DART Danish version of the National Adult Reading test, PANSS The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, GAF Global Assessment of Functioning.

*Significance level under p = 0.05.

**Significant after corrections for multiple comparisons.