Does comorbid anxiety counteract emotion recognition deficits in conduct disorder?

Autor: Roxanna M. L. Short, Graeme Fairchild, Wendy J. Adams, Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Male
SYMPTOMS
response biases
Emotions
CHILDHOOD
CHILDREN
Comorbidity
Audiology
Developmental psychology
Conduct disorder
0302 clinical medicine
emotion recognition
Developmental and Educational Psychology
anxiety disorder
OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER
Child
media_common
ANTISOCIAL-BEHAVIOR
Anxiety Disorders
Sadness
Facial Expression
Psychiatry and Mental health
VIOLENT OFFENDERS
comorbidity
ADOLESCENCE
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Facial Recognition
Anxiety disorder
Conduct Disorder
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
EARLY
media_common.quotation_subject
Social information processing
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
SOCIAL IMPAIRMENT
DELINQUENCY
Facial expression
FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION
callous-unemotional traits
Adolescent Development
medicine.disease
Disgust
030227 psychiatry
social information
Pediatrics
Perinatology and Child Health
processing
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
ISSN: 0021-9630
1469-7610
Popis: Background: Previous research has reported altered emotion recognition in both conduct disorder (CD) and anxiety disorders (ADs) – but these effects are of different kinds. Adolescents with CD often show a generalised pattern of deficits, while those with ADs show hypersensitivity to specific negative emotions. Although these conditions often co-occur, little is known regarding emotion recognition performance in comorbid CD+ADs. Here we test the hypothesis that in the comorbid case, anxiety-related emotion hypersensitivity counteracts the emotion recognition deficits typically observed in CD.Method: We compared facial emotion recognition across four groups of adolescents aged 12-18 years: those with CD alone (n = 28), ADs alone (n = 23), co-occurring CD+ADs (n = 20) and typically-developing controls (n = 28). The emotion recognition task we used systematically manipulated the emotional intensity of facial expressions as well as fixation location (eye, nose or mouth region).Results: CD was associated with a generalised impairment in emotion recognition, however this may have been modulated by group differences in IQ. AD was associated with increased sensitivity to low intensity happiness, disgust and sadness. In general, the comorbid CD+ADs group performed similarly to typically-developing controls. Conclusions: Although CD alone was associated with emotion recognition impairments, ADs and comorbid CD+ADs were associated with normal or enhanced emotion recognition performance. The presence of comorbid ADs appeared to counteract the effects of CD, suggesting a potentially protective role, although future research should address the contribution of IQ and gender to these effects.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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