Establishing a standard emotion processing battery for treatment evaluation in adults with autism spectrum disorder: Evidence supporting the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotion Intelligence Test (MSCEIT)

PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

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Kuo, Susan S.¹  Wojtalik, Jessica A.²  Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I.³  Keshavan, Matcheri S.³  Eack, Shaun M.^2,4 

[1] Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Psychol, 4209 Sennott Sq,210 S Bouquet St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

[2] Univ Pittsburgh, Sch Social Work, 2117 Cathedral Learning,4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

[3] Harvard Med Sch, Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Massachusetts Mental Hlth Ctr, Publ Psychiat Div, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA

[4] Univ Pittsburgh, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, Pittsburgh, PA USA

关键词: Autism;    Schizophrenia;    Transdiagnostic;    Neurodevelopmental disorder;    Emotion perception;    Social cognition;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.psychres.2019.05.011

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are neurodevelopmental disorders which show markedly similar deficits in emotion processing, yet treatment evaluation in ASD and treatment comparisons across ASD and schizophrenia are constrained by a lack of empirical work validating a standard emotion processing battery across ASD and schizophrenia. Encouragingly, the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotion Intelligence Test, version 2.0 (MSCEIT (Mayer et al., 2003) spans the range of emotion processing deficits in schizophrenia and ASD. This study therefore aimed to establish MSCEIT's factorial, measurement, and structural invariance in community-residing adults with schizophrenia (N = 103) and ASD (N = 113) using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. Consistent with prior studies in normative populations, a two-factor structure comprised of emotional experiencing and emotional reasoning was supported in ASD and schizophrenia. Both groups operationalize MSCEIT measures similarly, with all measures except for Facilitation and Management showing comparability across groups. To our knowledge, this study is not only the first to establish the measurement and structural invariance of a standard emotion perception battery in adults with ASD, it is also the first to establish its comparability across ASD and schizophrenia. Ultimately, these findings underscore MSCEIT's utility for standardizing treatment evaluation of social cognitive outcomes across the autism-schizophrenia spectrum.

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