Recognition of facial affect by children and adolescents diagnosed with social phobia

被引:111
作者
Simonian, SJ
Beidel, DC
Turner, SM
Berkes, JL
Long, JH
机构
[1] Coll Charleston, Dept Psychol, Charleston, SC 29424 USA
[2] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
关键词
child; adolescent; social phobia; social anxiety; facial affect;
D O I
10.1023/A:1012298707253
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
This study compared the ability of children with social phobia and children with no psychiatric disorder to accurately judge facial affect. Fifteen children and adolescents with social phobia and 14 control children were asked to identify emotions depicted in slides from the Pictures of Facial Affect. In addition, they rated their level of anxiety on a pictorial Likert scale prior to and upon completion of the facial recognition task. The results indicated that children with social phobia had significantly poorer facial affect recognition skills than normal controls and reported greater anxiety upon completion of the recognition task. Multivariate analysis revealed significant differences between groups in the number of errors based on the type of facial affect. Posthoc analysis indicated that deficits were most pronounced for facial representations of happiness, sadness, and disgust. The results are discussed in relation to an integrated model of social skills training that includes facial affect recognition training as a integral component in treatment programs for children and adolescents with social phobia. Directions for future research with larger samples of more ethnically diverse children and adolescents are presented.
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页码:137 / 145
页数:9
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