Social functioning in schizophrenia: what is the influence of gender? Usall, Judith Haro, Josep M. Moreno-Küstner, Berta Muñoz, Pedro Enrique Martínez, Alfredo Salvador, Luis Psicost Group Gender Schizophrenia Social adjustment Background and Objectives: To examine the influence of gender on social functioning in patients with schizophreni Methods: A sample of 318 schizophrenic (216 men and 102 women) (DSM-IV criteria) outpatients from four Spanish centres were administered the following instruments: Positive and Negative Symptom Scale (PANSS), Disability Assessment Scale (DAS-sv), and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale. A regression model was created with DAS and GAF as dependent variables, and gender, and other predictor variables as independent variables. Separate regression models were then generated for females and males. Results: Women had a better social functioning than men, and after adjusting for others predictor variables gender was a significant predictor specially for occupational functioning. In gender specific analyses, we found that the predictive variables for social functioning have more similarities than differences between men and women. Conclusions: In our sample, women showed a better social functioning than men specially in occupational functioning. 2014-07-23T10:03:00Z 2014-07-23T10:03:00Z 2007 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Usall, J.; et al. Social functioning in schizophrenia: what is the influence of gender?. European Journal of Psychiatry, 21(3): 199-205 (2007). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32747] 0213-6163 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32747 10.4321/S0213-61632007000300004 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Zaragoza. Facultad de Medicina