Department of Neurology, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychiatry, Institute of Health Promotion and Clinical Movement Science, German Sport University (GSU) Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933 Cologne, Germany; Klinik Bethesda Tschugg, Oberdorf, 3233 Tschugg, Switzerland.
Department of Neurology, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychiatry, Institute of Health Promotion and Clinical Movement Science, German Sport University (GSU) Cologne, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933 Cologne, Germany; Department of Sports and Health, Institute of Sports Medicine, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany.
Psychiatry Res. 2021 Aug;302:114031. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114031. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
Depressive individuals are impaired in the recognition of emotions in others'. Recent research suggests that the recognition of nonverbal expressions of emotions in other people may depend on the analysis of bodily rather than facial expressions. Therefore, we investigated if an impaired recognition of emotions by depressed individuals is body part specific.
Clinically diagnosed depressed and healthy matched controls were instructed to identify nonverbal expressions of positive (happiness), neutral, and negative emotions (sadness) via the face, the body, or the body and face.
Depressed participants responded significantly less correctly overall when compared to non-depressed individuals. The recognition of nonverbal expressions of happiness by the body negatively predicted the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) score.
The data revealed that the impaired recognition of nonverbal expressions of emotions in others by depressed individuals is not body part specific. Nevertheless, depressive symptoms seem to be related to the recognition of bodily expressions of happiness. Future studies must address whether impairments of depressive individuals are related to nonverbal expressions of the whole body.
抑郁个体在识别他人的情绪方面存在障碍。最近的研究表明，对他人非言语情绪表达的识别可能取决于对身体而不是面部表情的分析。因此，我们研究了抑郁个体对情绪的识别是否具有身体部位特异性。
临床诊断为抑郁的患者和健康匹配的对照组被要求通过面部、身体或身体和面部来识别积极（快乐）、中性和消极情绪（悲伤）的非言语表达。
与非抑郁个体相比，抑郁患者的整体反应明显不正确。身体对非言语表达的快乐识别与贝克抑郁量表第二版（BDI-II）评分呈负相关。
数据显示，抑郁个体对他人非言语情绪表达的识别障碍并非具有身体部位特异性。然而，抑郁症状似乎与对身体表达快乐的识别有关。未来的研究必须确定抑郁个体的障碍是否与整个身体的非言语表达有关。
