Recognition of emotion from body language among patients with unipolar depression

PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH

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Article

Loi, Felice¹  Vaidya, Jatin G.²  Paradiso, Sergio^3,4,5 

[1] Mile End Hosp, Tower Hamlets Ctr Mental Hlth, Millharbour PICU, London, England

[2] Univ Iowa, Dept Psychiat, Carver Coll Med, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

[3] Assoc Families & Their Doctors, I-95030 San Giovanni La Punta, CT, Italy

[4] CALTECH, Div Humanities & Social Sci, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[5] Univ Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile

关键词: Emotion;    Body language;    Unipolar depression;    Psychosocial adjustment;    Social cognition;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.psychres.2013.03.001

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Major depression may be associated with abnormal perception of emotions and impairment in social adaptation. Emotion recognition from body language and its possible implications to social adjustment have not been examined in patients with depression. Three groups of participants (51 with depression; 68 with history of depression in remission; and 69 never depressed healthy volunteers) were compared on static and dynamic tasks of emotion recognition from body language. Psychosocial adjustment was assessed using the Social Adjustment Scale Self-Report (SAS-SR). Participants with current depression showed reduced recognition accuracy for happy stimuli across tasks relative to remission and comparison participants. Participants with depression tended to show poorer psychosocial adaptation relative to remission and comparison groups. Correlations between perception accuracy of happiness and scores on the SAS-SR were largely not significant. These results indicate that depression is associated with reduced ability to appraise positive stimuli of emotional body language but emotion recognition performance is not tied to social adjustment. These alterations do not appear to be present in participants in remission suggesting state-like qualities. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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