King's College London (KCL), Psychological Medicine, IoPPN, UK.
King's College London (KCL), Department of Biostatistics, IoPPN, UK.
Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2015 Jul;23(4):262-8. doi: 10.1002/erv.2358. Epub 2015 Mar 22.
There is consistent evidence of difficulties in social cognition in adults with anorexia nervosa (AN), but less is known about adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability to recognise emotion expressed in body movement in adults and adolescents with AN.
One hundred and ninety-three females participated in the study (AN = 97: 61 adults and 36 adolescents). The performance of participants with AN on a body emotion recognition task was compared to age-matched healthy controls (HC = 96).
AN participants were significantly worse than HC recognising sadness, with adolescent AN participants showing worse performance overall. There were no difficulties in the recognition of other emotions.
The results partially support previous studies and the literature on facial emotion recognition, showing poorer recognition of sadness in AN. The results also suggest that difficulties in emotion recognition through body movements may be more subtle than other socio-emotional difficulties observed in AN.
厌食症(AN)患者的社会认知存在困难,这一现象已经得到了广泛证实,但目前对于青少年患者的相关研究则较少。本研究旨在调查厌食症青少年和成年患者识别身体动作所表达情绪的能力。
共有 193 名女性参与了本研究(AN=97 例:61 例成年患者和 36 例青少年患者;HC=96 例,与 AN 组年龄匹配)。将 AN 患者的身体情绪识别任务表现与年龄匹配的健康对照组(HC)进行比较。
与 HC 相比,AN 患者在识别悲伤方面的表现明显更差,且青少年 AN 患者的整体表现更差。而在识别其他情绪方面,两组则无差异。
研究结果部分支持了之前关于面部情绪识别的研究和文献,表明 AN 患者在识别悲伤方面存在困难。此外,研究结果还表明,与 AN 患者观察到的其他社会情绪困难相比,通过身体动作识别情绪的困难可能更为微妙。