 - There are some reliable, strongly consistent, and strong relationships between cognitive impairment and functional outcomes in schizophrenia, including community-based functions and the ability to acquire skills.
 - This association between nonsocial cognitive impairment and functional outcome are consistent across different countries and during the course of the illness.
 - The nonsocial cognitive impairment is a legitimate predictor for later community functioning.

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Although it was expected that antipsychotic medications may reduce the symptoms of the patients and enhance the community integration, researches have shown that this did not happen. The impairments of nonsocial cognition and their functional outcome stay as challenges of the field.

Implications of nonsocial cognitive impairment for community integration

Green, M. F., Horan, W. P., &amp; Lee, J. (2019). Nonsocial and social cognition in schizophrenia: Current evidence and Future Directions. World Psychiatry, 18(2), 146–161. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20624 

Nonsocial and social cognition in schizophrenia: current evidence and future directions

Nonsocial cognition and functional outcome

 - Intervening variables between nonsocial cognition and functional outcome of schizophrenia include defeatist beliefs (an individual's negative attitude about one's ability to success) and motivational factors.
 - The pathways between the cognitions and functionings can be direct or indirect, depending on the situation.

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