Emotion recognition and social skills in child and adolescent offspring of parents with schizophrenia.
Cogn Neuropsychiatry
; 22(3): 175-185, 2017 May.
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ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
Emotion recognition, a social cognition domain, is impaired in people with schizophrenia and contributes to social dysfunction. Whether impaired emotion recognition emerges as a manifestation of illness or predates symptoms is unclear. Findings from studies of emotion recognition impairments in first-degree relatives of people with schizophrenia are mixed and, to our knowledge, no studies have investigated the link between emotion recognition and social functioning in that population.METHODS:
This study examined facial affect recognition and social skills in 16 offspring of parents with schizophrenia (familial high-risk/FHR) compared to 34 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC), ages 7-19.RESULTS:
As hypothesised, FHR children exhibited impaired overall accuracy, accuracy in identifying fearful faces, and overall recognition speed relative to controls. Age-adjusted facial affect recognition accuracy scores predicted parent's overall rating of their child's social skills for both groups.CONCLUSIONS:
This study supports the presence of facial affect recognition deficits in FHR children. Importantly, as the first known study to suggest the presence of these deficits in young, asymptomatic FHR children, it extends findings to a developmental stage predating symptoms. Further, findings point to a relationship between early emotion recognition and social skills. Improved characterisation of deficits in FHR children could inform early intervention.Mots clés
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Base de données:
MEDLINE
Sujet principal:
Schizophrénie
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Enfant de personnes handicapées
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Émotions
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Compétences sociales
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Reconnaissance faciale
Type d'étude:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limites:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Langue:
En
Journal:
Cogn Neuropsychiatry
Sujet du journal:
NEUROLOGIA
Année:
2017
Type de document:
Article
Pays d'affiliation:
États-Unis d'Amérique