Charernboon Thammanard
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand.
Center of Excellence in Applied Epidemiology, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand.
Psychiatry Investig. 2020 May;17(5):460-464. doi: 10.30773/pi.2020.0040. Epub 2020 May 15.
People with schizophrenia show impairment in social cognition, such as emotion recognition and theory of mind. The current study aims to compare the ability of clinically stable schizophrenia patients to decode the positive, negative and neutral affective mental state of others with educational match-paired normal control.
50 people with schizophrenia and 50 matched controls were compared on the positive, negative and neutral emotional valence of affective theory of mind using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Tests.
The results showed that people with schizophrenia performed worse in negative and neutral emotional valence than normal controls; however, no significant differences in decoding positive valence were found.
Our data suggest that there is variability in the performance of affective theory of mind according to emotion valence; the impairments seem to be specific to only negative and neutral emotions, but not positive ones.
精神分裂症患者存在社会认知障碍,如情绪识别和心理理论。本研究旨在比较临床症状稳定的精神分裂症患者与教育程度匹配的正常对照组对他人积极、消极和中性情感心理状态的解码能力。
使用“眼动心理解读测试”,对50名精神分裂症患者和50名匹配的对照组进行情感心理理论的积极、消极和中性情绪效价比较。
结果显示,精神分裂症患者在消极和中性情绪效价方面的表现比正常对照组差;然而,在解码积极效价方面未发现显著差异。
我们的数据表明,情感心理理论的表现根据情绪效价存在差异;这种损害似乎仅特定于消极和中性情绪,而非积极情绪。