Journal article
Recognition of emotion from body language among patients with unipolar depression
Psychiatry research, Vol.209(1), pp.40-49
08/30/2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.03.001
PMCID: PMC3935379
PMID: 23608159
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Recognition of emotion from body language among patients with unipolar depression
- Creators
- Felice Loi - Millharbour PICU, Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health, Mile End Hospital, London, UKJatin G Vaidya - Department of Psychiatry, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USASergio Paradiso - Una Mano per la Vita, Association of Families and their Doctors, via Cristoforo Colombo n. 13, San Giovanni La Punta (CT) 95030, Italy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychiatry research, Vol.209(1), pp.40-49
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.03.001
- PMID
- 23608159
- PMCID
- PMC3935379
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychiatry Res
- ISSN
- 0165-1781
- eISSN
- 1872-7123
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100001068, name: Dana foundation; DOI: 10.13039/100012643, name: Mallinckrodt foundation; DOI: 10.13039/100009670, name: NARSAD; DOI: 10.13039/100000049, name: National Institute on Aging, award: 5K23AG027837
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/30/2013
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984003480402771
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