The problem of social functioning is one of the most relevant at the present stage. Over the past decades, first being in the sphere of interests of social psychiatry it has become one of the main focuses of research in clinical psychiatry. The latest trend is to determine the level of social functioning, namely, its recovery, as a criterion for the effectiveness of treatment. The number of works on this topic is increasing and motivating researchers to look for predictors of violations in social functioning. [2, 3, 4]. Recently, a lot of attention in these studies is devoted to the study of social cognition. [6, 9, 12]. Social cognitive functions determine how people think about themselves and others in the social world and process information in a social context [11]. However, research is carried out within the framework of individual nosologies [8, 10]. In our opinion, it will be interesting to expand the study using the syndromological approach in the "broad field" of psychotic disorders. Such a differentiated approach will allow identifying personal and social resource areas for each of the patient groups separately, which will enable them to identify specific focuses for improving rehab programs for them.

Study of social cognition in patients with depressive-paranoid symptoms in psychotic disorders with the following nosology types: paranoid schizophrenia (F 20.0), schizoaffective disorder, depressive type (F25.1) and recurrent depressive disorder, current episode severe with psychotic symptoms of inpatient treatment at the stage of remission.

Disruption of social cognitive functions in patients with depressive-paranoid symptoms in psychotic disorders within psychosis and the relationship of these disorders with certain psychopathological symptoms and level of social functioning.

The study was conducted at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology of the National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P. L. Shupika (Kyiv, Ukraine), clinical base - TMO "Psychiatry" in Kyiv. We examined 61 patients who were divided into three groups according to nosology: group 1 - 21 patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, paranoid form (F 20.0 - PN), group 2 - 23 patients diagnosed with a depressive type of schizoaffective disorder (F 25.1 - ORB) and group 3 - 17 patients suffering from recurrent depressive disorder with psychotic symptoms (F 33.3 - DDR). In the group of patients with PN, the average age was 38.3 ± 7.1 years, the average duration of the disease was 9.2 ± 4.7 years, and by gender, 36% of men and 64% of women. Among patients with CHD, the average age was 34.4 ± 8.3 years and the average experience of the disease was 4.7 ± 2.4 years, it included 29% of men and 71% of women. In the group of patients with DDR, the average age was 46.7 ± 6.2 years, the average duration of the disease was 15.1 ± 10.1 years, by gender, 23% of men and 77% of women.

Evaluation of social cognitive functions, namely the level of emotion management, was carried out using the Russian version of the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT V. 2.0) [1]. “Managing of Emotions” – one of the four branches of the test was used. This branch is part of MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery [7]. PANSS [5] and PSP scales were also used.

Statistical data processing was carried out using methods of analysis of variance based on the Microsoft Excel statistical package.

Emotion management measurement in the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso test was carried out by assessing the ability to regulate one's own emotional states (scale D) and the ability to regulate the emotional states of other people (scale H)

For the D and H scales comparison in further statistical processing of the results, the raw points were converted to standardized ones, which are similar to the Wechsler test value — their rate is 100 ± 15 points. The results of processing data in raw and standardized points are presented in Table 1.

The results were within the normal range. But certain trends were observed: on the D scale, the highest among the three groups were results in the group of patients with PS, whereas on the H scale, results were highest in the SAD group. And in the group of patients with DDR, the indicators for both scales were quite low and closer to the lower limit of normal.

For comparison of scales ratio in different groups were used indicators in standardized points (Figure 1).

A certain “mirrorness” of the pattern of emotional control impairment was observed in groups of patients with PS and the SAD. In the first group, the D scale prevailed over the H scale. While in the second group, the opposite trend was observed. In the group with RDD, the H and D scales hardly differed from each other.