TY - JOUR
T1 - Causality orientations among individuals with first-episode psychosis
AU - Breitborde, Nicholas J.K.
AU - Kleinlein, Petra
AU - Srihari, Vinod H.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addition Services, NIH grant MH088971, and a grant from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation to VHS as well as funds from the University of Arizona and grant from the Institute for Mental Health Research to NJKB.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - There is growing recognition that motivation among individuals with psychosis may influence both participation in, and response to, psychosocial interventions. Consequently, there is an increasing call for organizing treatment settings in ways that increase motivation among individuals with psychosis. However, empirical evidence suggests that whether a specific setting/event promotes motivation depends upon individuals' idiosyncratic interpretation (i.e. causality orientation) of that setting/event. Thus, the goal of this study is to examine causality orientations among individuals with first-episode psychosis and compare these to causality orientations among individuals without psychosis. Our results suggest that, similar to persons without psychosis, individuals with first-episode psychosis show a bias toward interpreting environmental events and personal behavior as determined by personal choice/goals. However, the magnitude of this bias is smaller among individuals with first-episode psychosis, such that they are more likely to perceive events as uncontrollable or regulated by external factors than individuals without psychosis.
AB - There is growing recognition that motivation among individuals with psychosis may influence both participation in, and response to, psychosocial interventions. Consequently, there is an increasing call for organizing treatment settings in ways that increase motivation among individuals with psychosis. However, empirical evidence suggests that whether a specific setting/event promotes motivation depends upon individuals' idiosyncratic interpretation (i.e. causality orientation) of that setting/event. Thus, the goal of this study is to examine causality orientations among individuals with first-episode psychosis and compare these to causality orientations among individuals without psychosis. Our results suggest that, similar to persons without psychosis, individuals with first-episode psychosis show a bias toward interpreting environmental events and personal behavior as determined by personal choice/goals. However, the magnitude of this bias is smaller among individuals with first-episode psychosis, such that they are more likely to perceive events as uncontrollable or regulated by external factors than individuals without psychosis.
KW - First-episode psychosis
KW - causality orientations
KW - motivation
KW - self-determination theory
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U2 - 10.1080/17522439.2012.762801
DO - 10.1080/17522439.2012.762801
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84902658930
SN - 1752-2439
VL - 6
SP - 177
EP - 180
JO - Psychosis
JF - Psychosis
IS - 2
ER -