Conneely, Maev;
Giacco, Domenico;
Hickling, Lauren M;
Priebe, Stefan;
Jones, Janelle M;
(2024)
Social Identity Mapping and Psychotic Disorders: Understanding the Relationships Between Social Identity Features, Self-Esteem, and Quality of Life.
Clinical Psychological Science
10.1177/21677026241263522.
(In press).
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Abstract
Having more social connections is related to better quality of life in people with psychosis. However, little is known about the nature of these social connections or whether the personal significance of social connections matters for quality of life. We aimed to fill this gap by surveying 200 people with psychosis using social identity mapping (SIM), which allows people to name their groups, roles, and relationships and how they feel about these. SIM names were categorized into 10 groups, with “activities” (39%) and “family” (14%) being most common; “patient” (3%), “politics” (2%), and “local residence” (1%) were least common. Hierarchical regression revealed that the only variable associated with better quality of life was having a greater number of highly important connections. This was mediated by self-esteem. Clinicians and researchers should examine the potential of social identification, the internalization of social connections, as a means of improving quality of life.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Social Identity Mapping and Psychotic Disorders: Understanding the Relationships Between Social Identity Features, Self-Esteem, and Quality of Life |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/21677026241263522 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21677026241263522 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | social connections, psychotic disorders, severe mental illness, self-esteem, quality of life, loneliness, social contact, belonging, social identity, social belonging, social identity maps, social identity mapping, social identity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry > Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196518 |
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