Cai C, et al. – The correlations among demographic characteristics, psychosocial variables, symptom severity, and quality of life (QOL), and the way these variables influenced QOL in patients with schizophrenia were explored as a part of this study, in Hubei, China. It was determined that among all variables, personal empowerment (accounting for 22.1% of variance) was the best positive predictor. On the other hand, symptom severity (accounting for 7.6% of variance) was found to be the best negative predictor of QOL in patients with schizophrenia.