Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Deutschordenstraße 50, Frankfurt a.M, Germany,
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2014 Jan;23(1):13-22. doi: 10.1007/s00787-013-0416-8. Epub 2013 Apr 9.
A deficit in emotion recognition has been suggested to underlie conduct problems. Although several studies have been conducted on this topic so far, most concentrated on male participants. The aim of the current study was to compare recognition of morphed emotional faces in girls with conduct problems (CP) with elevated or low callous-unemotional (CU+ vs. CU-) traits and a matched healthy developing control group (CG). Sixteen girls with CP-CU+, 16 girls with CP-CU- and 32 controls (mean age: 13.23 years, SD=2.33 years) were included. Video clips with morphed faces were presented in two runs to assess emotion recognition. Multivariate analysis of variance with the factors group and run was performed. Girls with CP-CU- needed more time than the CG to encode sad, fearful, and happy faces and they correctly identified sadness less often. Girls with CP-CU+ outperformed the other groups in the identification of fear. Learning effects throughout runs were the same for all groups except that girls with CP-CU- correctly identified fear less often in the second run compared to the first run. Results need to be replicated with comparable tasks, which might result in subgroup-specific therapeutic recommendations.
情绪识别缺陷被认为是行为问题的基础。尽管迄今为止已经有几项关于这一主题的研究，但大多数研究都集中在男性参与者身上。本研究的目的是比较有行为问题（CP）的女孩（有或无高冷酷无情（CU+）特征）与匹配的健康发展对照组（CG）对变形情绪面孔的识别。包括 16 名 CP-CU+女孩、16 名 CP-CU-女孩和 32 名对照组（平均年龄：13.23 岁，SD=2.33 岁）。呈现两个运行的视频片段以评估情绪识别。采用组和运行的因素进行多元方差分析。CP-CU-组的女孩比 CG 组需要更多的时间来编码悲伤、恐惧和快乐面孔，并且她们识别悲伤的准确性较低。CP-CU+组的女孩在识别恐惧方面优于其他组。除了 CP-CU-组的女孩在第二个运行中识别恐惧的准确性低于第一个运行外，所有组在整个运行中的学习效果都是相同的。需要使用类似的任务进行复制，这可能会导致针对特定亚组的治疗建议。
