Europe : people’s resilience and resistance

Moderator: HUANG Ping (Chinese Institute of Hong Kong, China) Speakers (30 mins each): Galip YALMAN (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Dimitris KONSTANTAKOPOULOS (The Delphi Initiative, Greece) Remy HERRERA (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Sonja LOKAR (Women\u27s Lobby of Slovenia, Slovenia

Is insight in schizophrenia multidimensional? Internal structure and associations of the Greek version of the Schedule for the Assessment of Insight Expanded

Despite the general agreement that insight is a multidimensional phenomenon, the studies on the factorial structure of the scales for its assessment have yielded rather inconsistent results. The present study aimed to assess the internal structure of the Schedule for the Assessment of Insight (SAI-E). Seventy-two chronic patients with schizophrenia were assessed with SAI-E. Hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling (MDS) were used to identify insight components and assess their inter-relationships. The associations of the extracted components with demographic, clinical and cognitive characteristics were also examined. The SAI-E demonstrated good psychometric properties. Three subscales of SAI-E were identified measuring awareness of illness, relabeling of symptoms, and treatment compliance. Moreover, the MDS disclosed two underlying dimensions - degree of ‘specificity’ and ‘spontaneity’ - within the insight construct. Treatment compliance was more strongly correlated with symptom relabeling than illness awareness. Excitement symptoms, global functioning and general intelligence were correlated with all the components of insight. Depressive symptoms were more strongly correlated with illness awareness. Impaired relabeling ability was linked to cognitive rigidity and greater severity of disorganization and positive symptoms. Education and severity of negative symptoms specifically affect treatment compliance. Our results support the hypothesis that insight is a multidimensional construct. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved

The end of globalization? (II) = 全球化之終結? (II)

Speakers (15 mins for each speaker): Alexander BUZGALIN (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) Galip YALMAN (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Melani BUDIANTA (University of Indonesia, Indonesia) MUTO Ichiyo (People’s Plan Study Group, Japan) Discussants (8 mins for each discussant): LU Aiguo (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) Dimitris KONSTANTAKOPOULOS (The Delphi Initiative, Greece) Teresa S. ENCARNACION TADEM (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines) WEI Ran (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) Ernesto REVELLO SÁNCHEZ (Independent Researcher, Venezuela/Spain