Department of Developmental, Educational and Social Psychology and Methodology, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Av. Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Spain.
Res Dev Disabil. 2021 Jul;114:103962. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2021.103962. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
Adults with Down Syndrome (DS) present difficulties in emotion understanding, although research has mainly focused on emotion recognition (external aspects), and little is known about their performance in other complex components (mental and reflective aspects).
This study aims to examine different aspects of emotion understanding in adults with DS, including a codification of their error pattern, and also to determine the association with other variables that are commonly impaired in adults with DS.
Twenty-two adults with DS and twenty-two children with typical development (TD) matched for vocabulary level were assessed with the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC), along with other non-verbal reasoning (NVR), structural language and working memory (WM) tasks.
Adults with DS showed lower emotion competence than children with TD in different components of the TEC, and also a different pattern of errors was observed. Structural language, NVR and WM predicted distinct emotion understanding skills in different ways.
It is important to plan interventions aimed at improving particular aspects of emotion understanding skills for adults with DS, taking into account the different components, the type of error and the different cognitive and linguistic skills involved in each emotion understanding skill.
患有唐氏综合征（DS）的成年人在情绪理解方面存在困难，尽管研究主要集中在情绪识别（外部方面），但对于他们在其他复杂成分（心理和反思方面）的表现知之甚少。
本研究旨在检查患有 DS 的成年人在情绪理解的不同方面的表现，包括对其错误模式进行编码，同时确定与其他在患有 DS 的成年人中常见受损的变量之间的关联。
22 名患有 DS 的成年人和 22 名词汇水平匹配的典型发育儿童（TD）均接受了情绪理解测试（TEC）的评估，同时还接受了其他非言语推理（NVR）、结构语言和工作记忆（WM）任务的评估。
患有 DS 的成年人在 TEC 的不同组成部分中表现出比 TD 儿童更低的情绪能力，并且还观察到不同的错误模式。结构语言、NVR 和 WM 以不同的方式预测不同的情绪理解技能。
为患有 DS 的成年人计划旨在提高特定情绪理解技能方面的干预措施非常重要，要考虑到不同的组成部分、不同的错误类型以及涉及到的每个情绪理解技能的不同认知和语言技能。
