Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, JW4999, 700 Children's Dr., Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
Psychiatry Res. 2010 Feb 28;175(3):244-51. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.06.003.
Impaired recognition of facial affect has been reported in youths and adults with antisocial behavior. However, few of these studies have examined subjects with the psychiatric disorders associated with antisocial behavior, and there are virtually no data on females. Our goal was to determine if facial affect recognition was impaired in adolescent girls with conduct disorder (CD). Performance on the Ekman Pictures of Facial Affect (POFA) task was compared in 35 girls with CD (mean age of 17.9 years+/-0.95; 38.9% African-American) and 30 girls who had no lifetime history of psychiatric disorder (mean age of 17.6 years+/-0.77; 30% African-American). Forty-five slides representing the six emotions in the POFA were presented one at a time; stimulus duration was 5s. Multivariate analyses indicated that CD vs. control status was not significantly associated with the total number of correct answers nor the number of correct answers for any specific emotion. Effect sizes were all considered small. Within-CD analyses did not demonstrate a significant effect for aggressive antisocial behavior on facial affect recognition. Our findings suggest that girls with CD are not impaired in facial affect recognition. However, we did find that girls with a history of trauma/neglect made a greater number of errors in recognizing fearful faces. Explanations for these findings are discussed and implications for future research presented.
面部情感识别受损已在具有反社会行为的青少年和成年人中得到报道。然而，这些研究很少检查与反社会行为相关的精神障碍患者，并且几乎没有关于女性的数据。我们的目标是确定患有品行障碍（CD）的青春期女孩是否存在面部情感识别障碍。在 35 名患有 CD 的女孩（平均年龄为 17.9 岁+/-0.95；38.9%为非裔美国人）和 30 名没有精神障碍病史的女孩（平均年龄为 17.6 岁+/-0.77；30%为非裔美国人）中，比较了他们在 Ekman 面部表情图片（POFA）任务上的表现。45 张幻灯片代表 POFA 中的六种情绪，每次呈现一张；刺激持续时间为 5 秒。多元分析表明，CD 与对照状态与正确答案总数或任何特定情绪的正确答案数均无显著相关性。效应大小均被认为较小。在 CD 内分析中，敌对性反社会行为对面部情感识别没有显著影响。我们的研究结果表明，患有 CD 的女孩在面部情感识别方面没有受损。然而，我们确实发现，有创伤/忽视史的女孩在识别恐惧面孔时犯的错误更多。讨论了这些发现的解释，并提出了对未来研究的启示。
