Koizumi Michiko, Takagishi Haruto
Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan ; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan.
Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
PLoS One. 2014 Jan 20;9(1):e86093. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086093. eCollection 2014.
Child abuse and neglect affect the development of social cognition in children and inhibit social adjustment. The purpose of this study was to compare the ability to identify the emotional states of others between abused and non-abused children. The participants, 129 children (44 abused and 85 non-abused children), completed a children's version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). Results showed that the mean accuracy rate on the RMET for abused children was significantly lower than the rate of the non-abused children. In addition, the accuracy rates for positive emotion items (e.g., hoping, interested, happy) were significantly lower for the abused children, but negative emotion and neutral items were not different across the groups. This study found a negative relationship between child abuse and the ability to understand others' emotions, especially positive emotions.
虐待和忽视儿童会影响儿童社会认知的发展,并阻碍其社会适应。本研究的目的是比较受虐待儿童和未受虐待儿童识别他人情绪状态的能力。129名儿童(44名受虐待儿童和85名未受虐待儿童)参与了儿童版的“读心术眼测试”(RMET)。结果显示,受虐待儿童在RMET上的平均准确率显著低于未受虐待儿童。此外,受虐待儿童在积极情绪项目(如希望、感兴趣、快乐)上的准确率显著较低,但在消极情绪和中性项目上,两组之间没有差异。本研究发现儿童虐待与理解他人情绪的能力之间存在负相关,尤其是积极情绪。