Title :

Grasping the mechanisms of narratives' incoherence in schizophrenia: an analysis of the temporal structure of patients' life story

Author(s) :

Allé, M. C. [Auteur]
Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg [FMTS]
Gandolphe, Marie-Charlotte [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Doba, Karyn [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Köber, C. [Auteur]
Department of Psychology
Potheegadoo, J. [Auteur]
Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg [FMTS]
Coutelle, R. [Auteur]
Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg [FMTS]
Habermas, T. [Auteur]
Nandrino, Jean-Louis [Auteur]
Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Danion, J.-M. [Auteur]
Physiopathologie clinique et expérimentale de la schizophrénie
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Strasbourg] [CHU Strasbourg]
Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg [FMTS]
Berna, F. [Auteur]

Université de Strasbourg [UNISTRA]
Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg [FMTS]

Journal title :

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Abbreviated title :

Compr Psychiatry

Volume number :

69

Pages :

20-29

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2016-04-30

ISSN :

0010-440X

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

OBJECTIVE: Life narratives of patients with schizophrenia are characterized by impaired coherence so that the listener has often difficulties to grasp the life trajectory of the patients. In order to better understand what ...
Show more >OBJECTIVE: Life narratives of patients with schizophrenia are characterized by impaired coherence so that the listener has often difficulties to grasp the life trajectory of the patients. In order to better understand what causes this reduced temporal coherence, we investigated the temporal structure of patients' life narratives through different temporal narrative elements (elaboration of beginnings and endings, local temporal indicators and temporal deviations from a linear order), across two complementary studies. METHODS: Life narratives were collected by means of two different methods; a free recall in study 1 and a more structured protocol, aiming at reducing the cognitive task demands in study 2. All narratives from the two studies were analyzed using the same validated method. RESULTS: Both studies showed that global temporal coherence is significantly reduced in patients with schizophrenia (ps.02). This is mainly due to their stronger tendency to temporally deviate from a linear temporal order without marking the deviation as such. We also observed significant correlations in the patient groups between global temporal coherence and executive dysfunction (p=.008) or their higher tendency to temporally deviate from a linear temporal order in their life narratives (p<.001). CONCLUSIONS: These results shed light on narrative correlates of temporal narrative incoherence in schizophrenia and highlight the central role of executive dysfunction in this incoherence.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Dynamique Émotionnelle et Pathologies (DEEP)

Submission date :

2019-02-13T14:48:11Z
2020-02-11T11:31:53Z
2021-01-22T14:02:02Z