Journal of International Psychiatry

Objective To evaluate the application effect of positive emotion training in chronic schizophrenia with re-gard to negative symptoms，social function，andqualityof life. ，social function，andqualityof life. social function，andqualityof life. ，andqualityof life. and quality of life. Methods Eighty-four hospitalized chronic patients withschizophrenia met with DSM-IV were randomly divided into 2 groups. 43 patients received 8 weeks positive emotion training（studygroup），and41patientsdidn’t（controlgroup）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment study group），and41patientsdidn’t（controlgroup）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment ），and41patientsdidn’t（controlgroup）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment and 41 patients didn’t （controlgroup）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment （controlgroup）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment control group）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment ）. Theantipsychoticsweretakenasbefore. ScalefortheAssessment . The antipsychotics were taken as before. Scale for the Assessmentof Negative Symptoms （SANS），ScaleofSocialfunctioninPsychosisInpatients（SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife （SANS），ScaleofSocialfunctioninPsychosisInpatients（SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife SANS），ScaleofSocialfunctioninPsychosisInpatients（SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife ），ScaleofSocialfunctioninPsychosisInpatients（SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife Scale of Social function in Psychosis Inpatients （SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife （SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife SSPI）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife ）andSchizophreniaQualityofLife and Schizophrenia Quality of LifeScale （SQLS）wasmeasuredbeforeandaftertraining. Results Instudygroup，SANStotalscore，scoreofaffectiveflatten- （SQLS）wasmeasuredbeforeandaftertraining. Results Instudygroup，SANStotalscore，scoreofaffectiveflatten- SQLS）wasmeasuredbeforeandaftertraining. Results Instudygroup，SANStotalscore，scoreofaffectiveflatten- ）wasmeasuredbeforeandaftertraining. Results Instudygroup，SANStotalscore，scoreofaffectiveflatten- was measured before and after training. Results In study group，SANStotalscore，scoreofaffectiveflatten- ，SANStotalscore，scoreofaffectiveflatten- SANS total score，scoreofaffectiveflatten- ，scoreofaffectiveflatten- score of affective flatten-ing，alogia，andavolition-apathydecreasedobviouslyaftertraining（ ，alogia，andavolition-apathydecreasedobviouslyaftertraining（ alogia，andavolition-apathydecreasedobviouslyaftertraining（ ，andavolition-apathydecreasedobviouslyaftertraining（ and avolition-apathy decreased obviously after training （t =5.115，P <0.001；t =3.258，P =0.002；t =3.305，P =0.001；t =6.089，P <0.001）. Thefactorsmentionedabovewerelessthanthoseincontrolgroup（ ）. Thefactorsmentionedabovewerelessthanthoseincontrolgroup（ . The factors mentioned above were less than those in control group （t =3.018，P =0.003；t =2.216，P =0.030；t =2.314，P =0.023；t =3.413，P =0.001）. Comparedwithbeforetraininginstudygroup，SSPItotal ）. Comparedwithbeforetraininginstudygroup，SSPItotal . Compared with before training in study group，SSPItotal ，SSPItotal SSPI totalscore and score of activity of daily living increased （t =2.273，P =0.026；t =3.171，P =0.002），SQLStotalscoreandscoreof ），SQLStotalscoreandscoreof SQLS total score and score ofmotivation/energy decreased obviously after training （t =2.591，P =0.011；t =4.111，P <0.001）.Differencesofthosefactors ）.Differencesofthosefactors . Differences of those factorsbetween two groups were of great significance （t =2.293，P =0.024；t =2.658，P =0.009；t =2.140，P =0.035；t =3.532，P <0.001）.Conclusion Positiveemotiontrainingmayalleviatethenegativesymptomsofchronicschizophrenia，suchasaf- ）.Conclusion Positiveemotiontrainingmayalleviatethenegativesymptomsofchronicschizophrenia，suchasaf- . Conclusion Positive emotion training may alleviate the negative symptoms of chronic schizophrenia，suchasaf- ，suchasaf- such as af-fective flattening，alogia，andavolition-apathy，improvesocialfunction，increasequalityoflife. ，alogia，andavolition-apathy，improvesocialfunction，increasequalityoflife. alogia，andavolition-apathy，improvesocialfunction，increasequalityoflife. ，andavolition-apathy，improvesocialfunction，increasequalityoflife. and avolition-apathy，improvesocialfunction，increasequalityoflife. ，improvesocialfunction，increasequalityoflife. improve social function，increasequalityoflife. ，increasequalityoflife. increase quality of life.

Positive emotion；Schizophrenia；Negativesymptom；Socialfunction；Qualityoflife ；