Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
J Autism Dev Disord. 2022 Jan;52(1):435-446. doi: 10.1007/s10803-021-04920-1. Epub 2021 Mar 3.
There is currently limited research and a lack of consensus on emotional processing impairments among adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present pilot study sought to characterize the extent to which adults with ASD are impaired in processing emotions in both words and pictures. Ten adults with ASD rated word and picture stimuli on emotional valence and arousal. Their ratings were compared to normative data for both stimuli sets using item-level correlations. Adults with ASD rank-ordered stimuli similarly to typically developing individuals, demonstrating relatively typical understanding of emotional words and pictures. However, they used a narrower range of the scales which suggests more subtle impairments affecting emotion-processing. Future directions arising from the findings of this pilot study are discussed.
目前，针对自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）成年人的情绪处理障碍，相关研究有限，且尚未达成共识。本研究旨在描述 ASD 成年人在处理词汇和图片中的情绪方面存在的损害程度。10 名 ASD 成年人对词汇和图片刺激进行了情绪效价和唤醒度的评定。他们的评定结果与两个刺激集的常模数据进行了项目水平的相关性比较。ASD 成年人对刺激的排序与典型发育个体相似，表明他们对情绪词汇和图片具有相对典型的理解。然而，他们使用的量表范围较窄，这表明情绪处理存在更细微的损害。本文讨论了该研究的发现所带来的未来研究方向。
