Emotional word usage in groups at risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: An objective investigation of attention to emotion
| Autor: | John G. Kerns, Melody M. Moore, Elizabeth A. Martin, Christie K. Fung, Nicole R. Karcher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male 050103 clinical psychology Anhedonia media_common.quotation_subject Emotions Affect (psychology) Article Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Perception mental disorders Schizophrenic Psychology medicine Humans Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Emotional expression Biological Psychiatry media_common 05 social sciences Case-control study Linguistics Affect Psychiatry and Mental health Expression (architecture) Case-Control Studies Schizophrenia Trait Female medicine.symptom Magic Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatry Research. 252:29-37 |
| ISSN: | 0165-1781 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.098 |
| Popis: | Both extreme levels of social anhedonia (SocAnh) and extreme levels of perceptual aberration/magical ideation (PerMag) indicate increased risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and are associated with emotional deficits. For SocAnh, there is evidence of self-reported decreased trait positive affect and abnormalities in emotional attention. For PerMag, there is evidence of increased trait negative affect and increased attention to negative emotion. Yet, the nature of more objective emotional abnormalities in these groups is unclear. The goal of this study was to assess attention to emotions more objectively in a SocAnh, PerMag, and control group by using a positive (vs. neutral) mood induction procedure followed by a free writing period. Linguistic analyses revealed that the SocAnh group used fewer positive emotion words than the control group, with the PerMag group falling in between the others. In addition, both at-risk groups used more negative emotion words than the control group. Also, for the control group only, those in the positive mood induction used more positive emotion words, suggesting their emotions influenced their linguistic expression. Overall, SocAnh is associated with decreased positive emotional expression and at-risk groups are associated with increased negative emotional expression and a decreased influence of emotions on linguistic expression. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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