Alexithymia and the Recognition of Facial Emotion in Schizophrenic Patients
Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
;
: 239-244, 2011.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-725322
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
Schizophrenic patients have been shown to be impaired in both emotional self-awareness and recognition of others' facial emotions. Alexithymia refers to the deficits in emotional self-awareness. The relationship between alexithymia and recognition of others' facial emotions needs to be explored to better understand the characteristics of emotional deficits in schizophrenic patients.METHODS:
Thirty control subjects and 31 schizophrenic patients completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20-Korean version (TAS-20K) and facial emotion recognition task. The stimuli in facial emotion recognition task consist of 6 emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and neutral). Recognition accuracy was calculated within each emotion category. Correlations between TAS-20K and recognition accuracy were analyzed.RESULTS:
The schizophrenic patients showed higher TAS-20K scores and lower recognition accuracy compared with the control subjects. The schizophrenic patients did not demonstrate any significant correlations between TAS-20K and recognition accuracy, unlike the control subjects.CONCLUSIONS:
The data suggest that, although schizophrenia may impair both emotional self-awareness and recognition of others' facial emotions, the degrees of deficit can be different between emotional self-awareness and recognition of others' facial emotions. This indicates that the emotional deficits in schizophrenia may assume more complex features.
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Main subject:
Schizophrenia
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Affective Symptoms
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Anger
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
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