Buitelaar J K, van der Wees M
University of Utrecht, Department of Child Psychiatry, The Netherlands.
J Autism Dev Disord. 1997 Oct;27(5):539-56. doi: 10.1023/a:1025878026569.
It has been hypothesized that deficits in theory of mind (ToM) and emotion recognition abilities in subjects with autisticlike disorders are independent. We examined the relationships between deficits in the various social cognitive domains in children with an autistic disorder (N = 20), in children with a pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS) (N = 20), and in psychiatric control (N = 20) and normal children (N = 20). The clinical groups were matched person-to-person on age and verbal IQ. The clinical children were 8-18 years old, the normal children 8-13 years old. The test battery included tasks for the matching and the context recognition of emotional expressions, and a set of first- and second-order ToM tasks. ToM and emotion recognition functioning proved to be better integrated in the non-PDD children than in the PDD children, but also in the PDD children significant correlations were found between ToM and emotion recognition measures.
有一种假设认为，患有类自闭症障碍的个体在心理理论（ToM）和情绪识别能力方面的缺陷是相互独立的。我们研究了自闭症谱系障碍儿童（N = 20）、未特定的广泛性发育障碍（PDDNOS）儿童（N = 20）、精神科对照儿童（N = 20）和正常儿童（N = 20）在各种社会认知领域的缺陷之间的关系。临床组在年龄和语言智商方面进行了个体匹配。临床儿童年龄在8至18岁之间，正常儿童年龄在8至13岁之间。测试组包括情绪表达匹配和情境识别任务，以及一系列一阶和二阶ToM任务。结果证明，与患有PDD的儿童相比，未患PDD的儿童在ToM和情绪识别功能方面的整合更好，但在患有PDD的儿童中，ToM和情绪识别测量之间也发现了显著的相关性。
