a Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Osmaniye State Hospital , Osmaniye , Turkey.
b Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Ege University Medical Faculty , Izmir , Turkey.
World J Biol Psychiatry. 2018 Mar;19(2):112-118. doi: 10.1080/15622975.2016.1265147. Epub 2016 Dec 21.
In this study we aimed to evaluate emotion recognition and emotion regulation skills of children with exogenous obesity between the ages of 11 and 18 years and compare them with healthy controls.
The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Aged Children was used for psychiatric evaluations. Emotion recognition skills were evaluated using Faces Test and Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. The Difficulties in Emotions Regulation Scale was used for evaluating skills of emotion regulation.
Children with obesity had lower scores on Faces Test and Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, and experienced greater difficulty in emotional regulation skills.
Improved understanding of emotional recognition and emotion regulation in young people with obesity may improve their social adaptation and help in the treatment of their disorder. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate both emotional recognition and emotion regulation functions in obese children and obese adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age.
本研究旨在评估 11 至 18 岁外源性肥胖儿童的情绪识别和情绪调节技能,并将其与健康对照组进行比较。
使用儿童心境障碍和精神分裂症谱系检查表进行精神病学评估。使用面部测试和眼神阅读测试评估情绪识别技能。使用情绪调节困难量表评估情绪调节技能。
肥胖儿童在面部测试和眼神阅读测试中的得分较低,在情绪调节技能方面遇到更多困难。
更好地理解肥胖青少年的情绪识别和情绪调节能力可能有助于改善他们的社会适应能力,并有助于治疗他们的疾病。据我们所知,这是第一项评估 11 至 18 岁肥胖儿童和青少年情绪识别和情绪调节功能的研究。