Reduced emotion recognition from nonverbal cues in anorexia nervosa

© 2021 The Authors. European Eating Disorders Review published by Eating Disorders Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association - 29(2021), 6 vom: 19. Nov., Seite 868-878

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Blomberg, Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
Schlegel, Katja [VerfasserIn]
Stoll, Linda [VerfasserIn]
Febry, Hagen [VerfasserIn]
Wünsch-Leiteritz, Wally [VerfasserIn]
Leiteritz, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Brockmeyer, Timo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Eating disorder
Emotion recognition
Journal Article
Social cognition
Socio-emotional processing
Theory of mind

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Date Completed 28.03.2022

Date Revised 01.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/erv.2860

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329743899