Korean Facial Emotion Recognition Tasks for Schizophrenia Research

OBJECTIVE: Despite the fact that facial emotion recognition (FER) tasks using Western faces should be applied with caution to non-Western participants or patients, there are few psychometrically sound and validated FER tasks featuring Easterners' facial expressions for emotions. Thus, we aimed to develop and establish the psychometric properties of the Korean Facial Emotion Identification Task (K-FEIT) and the Korean Facial Emotion Discrimination Task (K-FEDT) for individuals with schizophrenia. METHODS: The K-FEIT and K-FEDT were administered to 42 Korean individuals with schizophrenia to evaluate their psychometric properties. To test the convergent and divergent validities, the Social Behavior Sequencing Task (SBST) and hinting task were administered as social-cognitive measures, and the Trail Making Test (TMT)-A and -B were administered as neurocognitive measures. RESULTS: Average accuracy on the K-FEIT and K-FEDT were 63% and 74%, respectively, and internal consistencies of the K-FEIT and K-FEDT were 0.82 and 0.95, respectively. The K-FEIT and K-FEDT were significantly correlated with SBST and Hinting Task, but not with TMT-A and B. CONCLUSION: Following replication studies in a larger sample, the K-FEIT and K-FEDT are expected to facilitate future studies targeting facial emotion recognition in schizophrenia in Korea. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

A control study on emotion identification and emotion quotient of criminal adolescent / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

Objective To explore the differences of emotion identification and emotion quotient (EQ) scores between the teenage criminal group and the vocational school student group,and conduct research on the correlation between the emotion identification and EQ of teenage criminals.Methods A self-designed questionnaire,experiments about emotion identification and EQ tests were applied to 48 teenage criminals and 46 vocational school students who had the matching age,IQ and sex with the teenage criminals.Results The number of correct responses to neutral mood among the teenage criminals (60.00± 17.07) was lower than that of vocational school students (66.12±5.45).There was no difference about EQ between these two groups(90.48± 13.31,90.76± 19.85,P ＞0.05),but in pressure management dimensions,teenage criminals had some differences compared with the vocational school students (53.97± 8.95,57.84 ± 7.26,P＜ 0.05),especially in impulse control (24.97 ± 4.98,28.95 ± 5.22,P＜0.01).The general state of mind,pressure management,individual components and interpersonal components was related to the emotion identification(r 1 =0.43,r 2 =0.36-0.38,r 3 =0.37,P＜0.05).Conclusion Emotion identification of teenage criminals have some flaws,especially the judgment on neutral mood,and it is easily to be wrong.Teenage criminals lack of controlling in EQ.The emotion identification and EQ of the teenage criminal interact with each other.