Publications by authors named "Wim Snellen"
Objective: Intelligence is a known vulnerability marker in various psychiatric disorders. In eating disorders (ED) intelligence has not been studied thoroughly. Small-scale studies indicate that intelligence levels might be above general population norms, but larger scale studies are lacking.
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- A study analyzed social cognition and personality organization (PO) levels in 163 patients with severe somatoform disorders (SFDs) and 151 psychiatric control patients (PSA).
- The findings showed that while SFD patients had issues with cognitive aspects of social cognition, these were not worse than those in the PSA controls.
- SFD patients also displayed lower emotional investment in social interactions but higher emotional tone compared to the PSA group, suggesting that emotional investment impairments may be unique to SFD cases.
In this study, we investigated the construct validity of the theory-driven profile interpretation of the Dutch Short Form of the MMPI (DSFM; Luteijn & Kok, 1985), an interpretation method aimed at assessing structural features of personality based on Kernberg and Caligor's (2005) views concerning personality organization. We utilized the four dimensions of the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS; Westen, Lohr, Silk, Gold, & Kerber, 1990) as external criteria. Results showed that, congruent with theoretical expectations, the DSFM profiles predicted structural features of personality functioning, especially identity diffusion as measured by the SCORS, after adjustment for the effect of the single scales used to construct the profiles.
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