Parker J D, Taylor G J, Bagby R M
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Psychother Psychosom. 1993;59(3-4):197-202. doi: 10.1159/000288664.
Slides of photographs depicting posed facial expressions of nine different emotions were presented to 131 females and 85 males who were asked to identify the emotion(s) being experienced by the person in each photograph. Subjects were then administered the 20-item version of the Toronto Alexithymia Scale; the 33rd and 66th percentiles were used to categorize subjects into high, moderate, and low alexithymia groups. Results showed that the high alexithymia group was significantly less able to recognize facial expressions of emotions than the low alexithymia group. There was no significant effect for gender on the ability to recognize facial emotions. The results suggest the presence of deficits in the perception of nonverbal emotion in alexithymia.
研究人员向131名女性和85名男性展示了描绘九种不同情绪的摆拍面部表情的照片幻灯片，要求他们识别每张照片中人物所经历的情绪。然后，对受试者进行了20项版本的多伦多述情障碍量表测试；使用第33和66百分位数将受试者分为述情障碍高、中、低三组。结果显示，与低述情障碍组相比，高述情障碍组识别面部情绪表达的能力明显较弱。性别对识别面部情绪的能力没有显著影响。研究结果表明，述情障碍患者在非言语情绪感知方面存在缺陷。
