A study of emotional intelligence in an Egyptian sample of offspring of patients with schizophrenia

Background Emotional intelligence is usually a construct measured in healthy children, now it may be used for relatives of schizophrenia, and considered as trait marker for schizophrenia. Offspring of parents with schizophrenia are considered children with high familial risk for major mental disorde...

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Published in:	Middle East current psychiatry (Cairo) Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors:	ElSehrawy, Tarek M. K., Elela, Eman Abo, Hassan, Ghada A. M., Missiry, Marwa El, Nabi, Sohayla Abdel, Soliman, Mahmoud Farag
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 28-06-2022 SpringerOpen
Subjects:	Emotional intelligence Medicine Medicine & Public Health Offspring Psychiatry Schizophrenia Social cognition TEIQue Schizophrenia Offspring TEIQue Emotional intelligence Social cognition
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Summary:	Background Emotional intelligence is usually a construct measured in healthy children, now it may be used for relatives of schizophrenia, and considered as trait marker for schizophrenia. Offspring of parents with schizophrenia are considered children with high familial risk for major mental disorder. The aim of the study is to assess emotional intelligence in a group of off springs of a parent with schizophrenia and compare them to healthy control subjects, and to find possible relation between emotional intelligence in offspring and profile of symptoms in schizophrenic parents. Results Offspring of parents with schizophrenia had lower scores of emotional intelligences than their matched controls in emotion perception, self-esteem, low impulsivity and emotion regulation’s subsets of TEIQue-CF. There was correlation between offspring trait emotional intelligence and their parent’s duration of illness. There was no correlation found between schizophrenia severity in the parents and their offspring’s trait emotional intelligence. Conclusions Offspring of parents with schizophrenia had impaired trait emotional intelligence in some of its facets when compared to normal healthy subjects.
ISSN:	2090-5416 2090-5416
DOI:	10.1186/s43045-022-00216-x