Marquardt Craig A, Hitz Andrea C, Hill Jessica E, Erbes Christopher R, Polusny Melissa A
Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Minneapolis, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Motiv Emot. 2023 Apr 5;47:627-637. doi: 10.1007/s11031-023-10014-5.
Accurate emotion perception is an indicator of current psychosocial functioning. Past studies have reported variable relationships between impaired emotion identification, maladaptive personality traits, and psychopathology. We examined associations between discrimination performance and trait negative emotionality, positive emotionality, constraint, and absorption using the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire. New military soldiers (n = 548) viewed perceptually similar face pairs and picked the face with greater emotional intensity. Emotional intensity differences were small (10%, 20%, 30%, or 40%). Among the most ambiguous conditions (10%, 20%, 30%), absorption predicted higher accuracy. Negative emotionality predicted lower accuracy irrespective of percent difficulty. Furthermore, absorption predicted longer engagement during the 10% condition. Constraint predicted longer engagement regardless of the difficulty condition. Trait absorption accuracy effects were specific for sad, angry, and fearful faces, while negative emotionality accuracy effects were specific for sad faces. The findings highlight absorption as an underappreciated domain for explaining motivational engagement with faces and negative emotionality as a transdiagnostic predictor of impaired emotion perception.
准确的情绪感知是当前心理社会功能的一个指标。过去的研究报告了情绪识别受损、适应不良人格特质和精神病理学之间的不同关系。我们使用多维人格问卷研究了辨别表现与特质消极情绪、积极情绪、约束和专注之间的关联。新入伍士兵（n = 548）观看了在感知上相似的面孔对，并挑选出情绪强度更大的面孔。情绪强度差异较小（10%、20%、30%或40%）。在最模糊的条件（10%、20%、30%）下，专注预测了更高的准确性。无论难度百分比如何，消极情绪都预测了较低的准确性。此外，在10%的条件下，专注预测了更长的参与时间。无论难度条件如何，约束都预测了更长的参与时间。特质专注的准确性效应在悲伤、愤怒和恐惧面孔上具有特异性，而消极情绪的准确性效应在悲伤面孔上具有特异性。这些发现突出了专注是解释对面孔的动机参与的一个未得到充分重视的领域，以及消极情绪是情绪感知受损的一个跨诊断预测因素。
