Cross-Sectional Trajectories of Social Cognition in Later Life: Exploring Emotion Perception, Theory of Mind, and Emotional Empathy.

IF 2.1 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI:10.1093/arclin/acaf022

Amy L Jarvis, Stephanie Wong, Michael Weightman, Benjamin Simmonds, Hannah A D Keage, Gail Robinson

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Abstract

Objective: The social cognitive abilities of emotion perception, cognitive theory of mind (ToM), affective ToM, and emotional empathy change across adulthood. Few existing studies have examined the performance of a single social cognitive domain in later life, with no known studies having examined all four abilities together. Although it is well understood how non-social cognitive performance changes with age, and this has helped inform diagnostic methods for age-related disorders, relatively little is known about typical age-related social cognitive performance in later life. The current study aimed to investigate the association between age and social cognitive performance within a sample of healthy midlife to older adults.

Method: This cross-sectional study examined emotion perception using the Mini-SEA Facial Emotion Recognition Test, cognitive and affective ToM using The Shortened Awareness of Social Inference Test-Short Form, and emotional empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index in 236 healthy adults aged 43-80 years (M = 60.30, SD = 6.88, 76% female).

Results: Multiple linear regression analyses revealed that age only had a significant, medium, negative association with cognitive (B = -.08, p < .001) and affective (B = -.05, p < .001) ToM and was not significantly associated with emotion perception or emotional empathy.

Conclusions: These findings enhance our understanding of normal social cognitive aging in later life, which can inform decisions around adding social cognitive measures into existing neuropsychological diagnostic tools for psychiatric, neurological, and developmental disorders.

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晚年社会认知的横截面轨迹：探索情绪知觉、心理理论和情感共情。

目的：观察成年期情绪知觉、认知心理理论、情感心理理论和情绪共情的社会认知能力变化。很少有现有的研究考察了一个社会认知领域在晚年的表现，也没有已知的研究同时考察了所有四种能力。虽然我们很清楚非社会认知表现是如何随着年龄的增长而变化的，这有助于为年龄相关疾病的诊断方法提供信息，但对于晚年典型的年龄相关社会认知表现，我们所知相对较少。目前的研究旨在调查年龄和社会认知表现之间的关系，在一个健康的中年到老年人的样本中。方法：采用Mini-SEA面部情绪识别测验对236例43 ~ 80岁健康成人（M = 60.30, SD = 6.88, 76%为女性）的情绪知觉、缩短社会推理意识测验（short Form）的认知和情感ToM、人际反应指数（Interpersonal Reactivity Index）的情感共情进行横断面研究。结果：多元线性回归分析显示，年龄与认知能力（B = -）只有显著的、中等的负相关。结论：这些发现增强了我们对晚年正常社会认知老化的理解，这可以为在现有的精神、神经和发育障碍的神经心理学诊断工具中加入社会认知测量提供决策依据。

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Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

7.70%

发文量

358

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal publishes original contributions dealing with psychological aspects of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders arising out of dysfunction of the central nervous system. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology will also consider manuscripts involving the established principles of the profession of neuropsychology: (a) delivery and evaluation of services, (b) ethical and legal issues, and (c) approaches to education and training. Preference will be given to empirical reports and key reviews. Brief research reports, case studies, and commentaries on published articles (not exceeding two printed pages) will also be considered. At the discretion of the editor, rebuttals to commentaries may be invited. Occasional papers of a theoretical nature will be considered.