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Replication in California of British Research on Expressed Emotion

Christine E. Vaughn, PhD; Karen Sorensen Snyder, MA; Simon Jones, MD; William B. Freeman, MA; Ian R. H. Falloon, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1984;41(12):1169-1177.

Abstract
• Our study of the emotional atmosphere of the homes of schizophrenic patients in southern California has replicated British findings concerning the influence of the family environment on the course of schizophrenia. As in the British studies, criticism and overinvolvement expressed by a key relative about the patient at the time of the key admission proved to be the best single predictor of symptomatic relapse in the nine months after discharge from the hospital. Replicating the British results, the association between relatives' expressed emotion and relapse was independent of all other variables investigated. Cross-cultural results concerning the prophylactic effects of medication suggest that clinicians should look to the emotional atmosphere in the home for explanations of medication failures.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Prestwick Hospital, Manchester, England (Dr Vaughn); the Department of Psychiatry, UCLA (Ms Snyder); the Department of Psychiatry, Fairmile Hospital, Oxfordshire, England (Dr Jones); the Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlingame (Mr Freeman); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (Dr Falloon).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 21, 1984.

Reprint requests to 760 Westwood Plaza, NPI, Box 18, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (Ms Snyder).

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