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Table 4 Correlation between executive functions and schizophrenia symptom severity

From: Cognitive dysfunction among inpatients and outpatients with schizophrenia: relationship to positive and negative symptoms

Variables

Positive symptoms

Negative symptoms

General psychopathology

r

p value

r

p value

r

p value

WCST

      

 Category completed

− 0.226

0.001

− 0.142

0.000

− 0.223

0.002

 Total errors

0.220

0.002

0.122

0.000

0.224

0.001

 Preservative errors

− 0.186

0.008

− 0.079

0.267

− 0.157

0.027

 Non-preservative errors

0.260

0.000

0.133

0.060

0.237

0.001

 Times to complete 1st category

− 0.043

0.547

− 0.056

0.429

0.025

0.725

  1. Spearman correlation
  2. WCST Wisconsin Card Sorting Test