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Record W4414905827 · doi:10.1016/j.schres.2026.03.029

The Role of Cognitive Schemas in Personal Recovery, Symptom Severity, and Functioning in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders

2025· preprint· en· W4414905827 on OpenAlexafffund
Hanna Vaziri Hamzai, Jessica D’Arcey, Shreya Jagtap, Talia Leibovitz, Felicia Martins, Robert Aidelbaum, Aqsa Zahid, Michael W. Best

Bibliographic record

VenueSchizophrenia Research · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSchizophrenia research and treatment
Canadian institutionsThe Scarborough HospitalUniversity of Toronto
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCanadian Medical Association
KeywordsPsychosocialSchema (genetic algorithms)CognitionAssociation (psychology)Cognitive skillSocial support

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Negative cognitive schemas about the self and others are prevalent in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSDs) and are associated with symptom severity. Recent conceptualizations of recovery emphasize functional and personal outcomes in addition to symptoms. The current study examined the effects of schemas on domains of symptoms, functioning, and personal recovery. METHODS: 71 individuals diagnosed with SSDs were included in the present study. Data presented in this study were collected as part of the baseline assessment for a clinical trial evaluating remotely delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis. Participants completed measures of core schemas, symptom severity, psychosocial functioning, and personal recovery. RESULTS: Cognitive schemas accounted for significant variance in personal recovery (65%), symptom severity (27%), and psychosocial functioning (18%). Negative-self schemas were associated with poorer social functioning, lower personal recovery, and greater overall symptom severity (ps = 0.034-0.036; BH-adjusted ps = 0.073). Positive-other schemas were associated with greater social functioning (p = .018; BH-adjusted p = .072) and personal recovery (p and BH-adjusted p < .001). Positive-self schemas were associated with greater personal recovery (p and BH-adjusted p < .001). Associations between schemas and personal recovery largely persisted after the influence of the other recovery domains was accounted for (ps < 0.001-0.062). CONCLUSION: Cognitive schemas demonstrated associations with symptoms, psychosocial functioning, and personal recovery in individuals with SSDs, with negative-self evaluations in particular showing trend-level associations across all three domains. Greater personal recovery was associated with higher positive self- and other-evaluations, independent of symptom severity and functioning, underscoring their relevance for recovery-oriented interventions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.332
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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