ATTITUDE TOWARD MEDICATION AND PERCEIVED COMPETENCE AMONG CHRONICALLYPSYCHOTIC-PATIENTS

19 chronically psychotic outpatients who had consistently expressed do ubt about their need for psychotropic medication provided significantl y more inflated estimates of their performance on a problem-solving ta sk than 18 subjects who had not expressed such skepticism. The finding s are consistent with the view that the observed relationship between denial of deficits and noncompliance with treatment among psychotic in dividuals is a function of a broader pattern of self-deception.