School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
Psychiatry Res. 2010 Feb 28;175(3):256-9. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.01.028. Epub 2009 Dec 22.
Increasing emphasis has been placed on the role of socioemotional functioning in models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study investigated whether OCD symptoms were associated with capacity for theory of mind (ToM) and basic affect recognition. Non-clinical volunteers (N=204) completed self report measures of OCD and general psychopathology, in addition to behavioral measures of ToM and affect recognition. The results indicated that higher OCD symptoms were associated with reduced ToM, as well as reduced accuracy decoding the specific emotion of disgust. Importantly, these relationships could not be attributed to other, more general features of psychopathology. The findings of the current study therefore further our understanding of how the processing and interpretation of social and emotional information is affected in the context of OCD symptomatology, and are discussed in relation to neuropsychological models of OCD.
越来越多的研究强调社会情感功能在强迫症（OCD）模型中的作用。本研究旨在探讨强迫症症状是否与心理理论（ToM）能力和基本情感识别能力有关。非临床志愿者（N=204）完成了强迫症和一般精神病理学的自我报告测量，以及 ToM 和情感识别的行为测量。结果表明，较高的强迫症症状与较低的心理理论能力以及对厌恶情绪的识别准确性降低有关。重要的是，这些关系不能归因于其他更普遍的精神病理学特征。因此，当前研究的结果进一步加深了我们对在强迫症症状背景下社会和情感信息的处理和解释如何受到影响的理解，并结合强迫症的神经心理学模型进行了讨论。
