Emotional attitude in relatives of schizophrenic patients psychosocial study

ABSTRACT

Camberwell family interview [CFI] for assessing relative expressed emotion [EE] was applied to relatives of one-hundred schizophrenic patients of different social classes and demographic patterns. It was found that high EE is not an independent trait, but it seems to be born in a climate of insecurity being more encountered among paranoid personalities, poor economic status and in parents who had lost their partners. The prevalence of high EF, doesn't differ between partners and parents, however, the kind of EE may differ. Parents are both emotionally over involved and highly critical towards ill children while partners are exclusively critical in attitude