- An initial series of studies evaluated whether aspects of social cognition (e.g., emotion perception and social perception) act as mediators between nonsocial cognitive processes and functional daily outcomes – demonstrated by significantly reducing or eliminating the direct relationship between nonsocial cognition and outcome. 
- The results were consistent: in these models, social cognition acts as a mediator for functional outcomes with approximately 25% of the variance in functional outcome being explained by such mediation models.

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- Medium to large associations between social cognitive domains and community 
functioning were reported, with mentalizing showing the strongest relationship 
in a meta-analysis. 
- This meta-analysis reported that social cognition explained roughly 16% of the variance in community functioning, while nonsocial cognition accounted for about 6%.
- The association between social cognition and functioning has been found to hold up over time. For example, significant associations between baseline social cognition and community functioning can be seen one year and even five years later.

Social Cognition and Functional Outcome

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 

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