Symptom correlates of facial emotion recognition impairment in schizophrenia.
Psychopathology
; 47(1): 65-70, 2014.
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| ID: mdl-23796958
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The ability to facial emotion recognition (FER), a key component of socioemotional competence, is often impaired in schizophrenic disorders. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between emotion recognition performance and symptoms in a group of patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. SAMPLING ANDMETHODS:
Seventy-nine patients meeting DSM-IV-TR criteria for schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder and schizoaffective disorder were assessed by the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and a FER task. In schizophrenia patients and healthy control subjects, FER performance was compared. In order to avoid a possible confounding role of cognitive impairment, we carried out partial correlations corrected for an index of global cognition.RESULTS:
Patients performed worse than a healthy control group on all negative emotions. Partial correlations showed that cognitive/disorganized symptoms correlated with a worse performance in the FER task, whereas no correlations were found with positive, negative, excitement and depressive symptoms.CONCLUSIONS:
Our findings support that in schizophrenia FER impairment is specific for negative emotions and that there is a relationship between this deficit and cognitive/disorganized symptoms, regardless of the general cognitive level.
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Assunto principal:
Transtornos Psicóticos
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Psicologia do Esquizofrênico
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Transtornos Cognitivos
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Reconhecimento Psicológico
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Emoções
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Expressão Facial
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psychopathology
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália