O'Kearney Richard, Salmon Karen, Liwag Maria, Fortune Clare-Ann, Dawel Amy
Research School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia.
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2017 Apr;48(2):346-357. doi: 10.1007/s10578-016-0645-4.
Most studies of emotion abilities in disruptive children focus on emotion expression recognition. This study compared 74 children aged 4-8 years with ODD to 45 comparison children (33 healthy; 12 with an anxiety disorder) on behaviourally assessed measures of emotion perception, emotion perspective-taking, knowledge of emotions causes and understanding ambivalent emotions and on parent-reported cognitive and affective empathy. Adjusting for child's sex, age and expressive language ODD children showed a paucity in attributing causes to emotions but no other deficits relative to the comparison groups. ODD boys with high levels of callous-unemotional traits (CU) (n = 22) showed deficits relative to low CU ODD boys (n = 25) in emotion perspective-taking and in understanding ambivalent emotions. Low CU ODD boys did not differ from the healthy typically developing boys (n = 12). Impairments in emotion perceptive-taking and understanding mixed emotions in ODD boys are associated with the presence of a high level of CU.
大多数关于破坏性行为障碍儿童情绪能力的研究都集中在情绪表达识别上。本研究将74名4至8岁的对立违抗性障碍（ODD）儿童与45名对照儿童（33名健康儿童；12名患有焦虑症）在行为评估的情绪感知、情绪观点采择、情绪原因知识、理解矛盾情绪以及家长报告的认知和情感同理心等方面进行了比较。在对儿童的性别、年龄和表达性语言进行调整后，ODD儿童在将原因归因于情绪方面表现不足，但与对照组相比没有其他缺陷。具有高水平冷酷无情特质（CU）的ODD男孩（n = 22）在情绪观点采择和理解矛盾情绪方面相对于低CU的ODD男孩（n = 25）表现出缺陷。低CU的ODD男孩与健康的正常发育男孩（n = 12）没有差异。ODD男孩在情绪感知采择和理解混合情绪方面的损伤与高水平的CU有关。
