Autistic traits, alexithymia, and emotion recognition of human and anime faces.

IF 3.1 2区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL
Bridger J Standiford, Kevin J Hsu
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Abstract

Individuals on the autism spectrum or with elevated autistic traits have shown difficulty in recognizing people's facial emotions. They also tend to gravitate toward anime, a highly visual medium featuring animated characters whose facial emotions may be easier to distinguish. Because autistic traits overlap with alexithymia, or difficulty in identifying and describing feelings, alexithymia might explain the association between elevated autistic traits and difficulty with facial emotion recognition. The present study used a computerized task to first examine whether elevated autistic traits in a community sample of 247 adults were associated with less accurate emotion recognition of human but not anime faces. Results showed that individuals higher in autistic traits performed significantly worse on the human facial emotion recognition task, but no better or worse on the anime version. After controlling for alexithymia and other potentially confounding variables, autistic traits were no longer associated with performance on the facial emotion recognition tasks. However, alexithymia remained a significant predictor and fully mediated the relationship between autistic traits and emotion recognition of both human and anime faces. Findings suggest that interventions designed to help individuals on the autism spectrum with facial emotion recognition might benefit from targeting alexithymia and employing anime characters.

自闭症特征,述情障碍,以及人类和动画面孔的情感识别。
自闭症谱系上的人或有高度自闭症特征的人在识别别人的面部情绪方面表现出困难。他们也倾向于被动画所吸引,这是一种高度视觉化的媒介,其中有动画人物,他们的面部情绪可能更容易区分。因为自闭症特征与述情障碍重叠,或难以识别和描述感觉,述情障碍可以解释自闭症特征升高与面部情绪识别困难之间的联系。目前的研究使用了一项计算机化的任务,首先检查了247名成年人的社区样本中自闭症特征的升高是否与对人类面孔而非动漫面孔的不准确情绪识别有关。结果显示,自闭症特征较高的个体在人类面部情绪识别任务中的表现明显较差,但在动画版本中没有表现得更好或更差。在控制了述情障碍和其他潜在的混淆变量后,自闭症特征不再与面部情绪识别任务的表现有关。然而,述情障碍仍然是一个显著的预测因子,并完全介导了自闭症特征与人类和动画面孔的情绪识别之间的关系。研究结果表明,针对述情障碍和使用动漫角色,旨在帮助自闭症患者识别面部情绪的干预措施可能会受益。
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Development and Psychopathology
Development and Psychopathology PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-
CiteScore
7.20
自引率
9.10%
发文量
319
期刊介绍: This multidisciplinary journal is devoted to the publication of original, empirical, theoretical and review papers which address the interrelationship of normal and pathological development in adults and children. It is intended to serve and integrate the field of developmental psychopathology which strives to understand patterns of adaptation and maladaptation throughout the lifespan. This journal is of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, social scientists, neuroscientists, paediatricians, and researchers.
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