Department of Special Needs Educational and Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10 C, 35394, Giessen, Germany.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2020 Oct;51(5):721-733. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-00976-9.
This study aimed to assess whether callous-unemotional traits (CU) are associated with deficits in emotion recognition independent of externalizing behavior and whether such deficits can be explained by aberrant attention. As previous studies have produced inconsistent results, the current study included two different emotion recognition paradigms and assessed the potential influence of factors such as processing speed and attention. The study included N = 94 children (eight to 14 years) with an oversampling of children with conduct problems (CP) and varying levels of CU-traits. Independent of externalizing behavior, CU-traits were associated with slower recognition of angry, sad and fearful facial expressions but not with higher error rates. There was no evidence that the association between CU-traits and emotion processing could be explained by misguided attention. Our results implicate that in children with high levels of CU-traits emotion recognition deficits depend on deficits in processing speed.
本研究旨在评估无情特质（CU）是否与情绪识别缺陷有关，而这种缺陷是否可以用异常注意来解释，这种缺陷是否与外化行为无关。由于之前的研究结果不一致，本研究包括了两种不同的情绪识别范式，并评估了诸如处理速度和注意力等因素的潜在影响。该研究包括 N=94 名儿童（8 至 14 岁），其中对有行为问题的儿童（CP）和不同 CU 特质水平进行了过度抽样。独立于外化行为，CU 特质与愤怒、悲伤和恐惧面部表情的识别速度较慢有关，但与更高的错误率无关。没有证据表明 CU 特质与情绪处理之间的关联可以用错误的注意力来解释。我们的研究结果表明，在具有高 CU 特质的儿童中，情绪识别缺陷取决于处理速度的缺陷。
