Publications by authors named "Gifty Ayawvi"
Article Synopsis
- * A study compared SZ outpatients and healthy controls (CN) using a cognitive effort allocation task (COGED), revealing that SZ participants were less willing to work for rewards and showed less flexibility in their effort choices under varying cognitive demands.
- * Those with SZ who held strong defeatist beliefs about their performance were particularly reluctant to choose high-effort tasks when faced with increased cognitive load, indicating that addressing these beliefs could help improve decision-making in this population.
Aim: Youth at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis have high rates of early life trauma, but it is unclear how trauma exposure impacts later negative symptom severity in CHR. The current study examined the association between early childhood trauma and the five domains of negative symptoms (anhedonia, avolition, asociality, blunted affect, alogia).
Method: Eighty nine participants completed interviewer-rated measures of childhood trauma and abuse experienced before age 16, psychosis risk, and negative symptoms.