Blomberg, Maximilian; Schlegel, Katja; Stoll, Linda; Febry, Hagen; Wünsch-Leiteritz, Wally; Leiteritz, Andreas; Brockmeyer, Timo (2021). Reduced emotion recognition from nonverbal cues in anorexia nervosa. European Eating Disorders Review, 29(6), pp. 868-878. Wiley 10.1002/erv.2860
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Objective: Recent models of anorexia nervosa (AN) emphasise the role of reduced emotion recognition ability (ERA) in the development and maintenance of the disorder. However, methodological limitations impede conclusions from prior research. The current study tries to overcome these limitations by examining ERA with an audio-visual measure that focuses strictly on multimodal nonverbal cues and allows to differentiate between ERA for different emotion categories.
Method: Forty women with AN and 40 healthy women completed the Geneva Emotion Recognition Test. This test includes 83 video clips in which 10 actors express 14 different emotions while saying a pseudo-linguistic sentence without semantic meaning. All clips contain multimodal nonverbal cues (i.e., prosody, facial expression, gestures, and posture).
Results: Patients with AN showed poorer ERA than the healthy control group (d = 0.71), particularly regarding emotions of negative valence (d = 0.26). Furthermore, a lower body weight (r = 0.41) and longer illness duration (ρ = -0.32) were associated with poorer ERA in the AN group.
Conclusions: Using an ecologically valid instrument, the findings of the study support illness models emphasising poor ERA in AN. Directly addressing ERA in the treatment of AN with targeted interventions may be promising.
Keywords: eating disorder; emotion recognition; social cognition; socio-emotional processing; theory of mind.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schlegel, Katja |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
1072-4133 |
Publisher: |
Wiley |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Karin Dubler |
Date Deposited: |
25 Mar 2022 16:06 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:14 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1002/erv.2860 |
PubMed ID: |
34431168 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/167107 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/167107 |
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