Superior facial emotion recognition in adolescents with anorexia nervosa – A replication study

IF 3.9 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

European Eating Disorders Review Pub Date : 2024-05-11 DOI:10.1002/erv.3103

Anca Sfärlea, Christina Buhl, Linda Lukas, Gerd Schulte-Körne

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Abstract

Objective

Anorexia nervosa (AN) has been associated with alterations in the processing of socio-emotional information, including impairments in the recognition of emotions in other people's faces. However, adolescents with AN might not show the impairments found in adult patients. The present study investigated facial emotion recognition in adolescents with AN, aiming to replicate our previous results of superior emotion recognition abilities in adolescents with AN compared to adolescents without mental disorders.

Method

Adolescent girls (12–18 years) with AN (n = 33) were compared to girls without mental disorders (n = 41). Participants completed one task requiring identification of emotions (happy, sad, afraid, angry, neutral) in faces and one control task.

Results

As expected, adolescents with AN showed superior emotion recognition, with higher accuracy rates specifically for afraid faces.

Conclusion

This is the first study replicating previous results on basic emotion recognition in adolescents with AN using (almost) the same methodology. The results suggest that, in contrast to adults, adolescents with AN do not show impairments in facial emotion recognition. The impairments may arise in the longer course of the illness, however, longitudinal studies are necessary to confirm this assumption.

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神经性厌食症青少年的面部情绪识别能力超常--一项重复研究。

目的：神经性厌食症（AN神经性厌食症（AN）与社会情绪信息处理的改变有关，包括对他人面部情绪的识别障碍。然而，患有神经性厌食症的青少年可能并不表现出成年患者的障碍。本研究调查了患有自闭症的青少年的面部情绪识别能力，旨在重复我们之前的研究结果，即与无精神障碍的青少年相比，患有自闭症的青少年的情绪识别能力更强：方法：将患有自闭症的少女（12-18 岁）（33 人）与无精神障碍的少女（41 人）进行比较。受试者完成一项要求识别面部情绪（快乐、悲伤、恐惧、愤怒、中性）的任务和一项对照任务：不出所料，患有自闭症的青少年在情绪识别方面表现突出，尤其是在识别害怕的面孔时准确率更高：这是首次使用（几乎）相同的方法，对患有自闭症的青少年的基本情绪识别结果进行重复研究。研究结果表明，与成人相比，患有自闭症的青少年在面部情绪识别方面并不存在障碍。然而，这种障碍可能会在较长的病程中出现，因此有必要进行纵向研究来证实这一假设。

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European Eating Disorders Review PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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8.90

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期刊介绍： European Eating Disorders Review publishes authoritative and accessible articles, from all over the world, which review or report original research that has implications for the treatment and care of people with eating disorders, and articles which report innovations and experience in the clinical management of eating disorders. The journal focuses on implications for best practice in diagnosis and treatment. The journal also provides a forum for discussion of the causes and prevention of eating disorders, and related health policy. The aims of the journal are to offer a channel of communication between researchers, practitioners, administrators and policymakers who need to report and understand developments in the field of eating disorders.