Adults with a history of childhood maltreatment with and without mental disorders show alterations in the recognition of facial expressions

Background: Individuals with child maltreatment (CM) experiences show alterations in emotion recognition (ER). However, previous research has mainly focused on populations with specific mental disorders, which makes it unclear whether alterations in the recognition of facial expressions are related...

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Published in:European journal of psychotraumatology 2023, Vol.14 (2), p.2214388-2214388
Main Authors: Hautle, Lara-Lynn, Jellestad, Lena, Schenkel, Sebastian, Wingenbach, Tanja S. H., Peyk, Peter, Schnyder, Ulrich, Weilenmann, Sonja, Pfaltz, Monique C.
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Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Basic
Child
Child Abuse
child maltreatment
Emotions
expresiones neutras
Facial emotion recognition
Facial Expression
Humans
maltrato infantil
Mental Disorders
negativity bias
neutral expressions
Psychotic Disorders
Reconocimiento facial de emociones
sesgo de negatividad
trastornos mentales
面部情绪识别，儿童虐待，消极偏差，中性表情，精神障碍
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Summary:Background: Individuals with child maltreatment (CM) experiences show alterations in emotion recognition (ER). However, previous research has mainly focused on populations with specific mental disorders, which makes it unclear whether alterations in the recognition of facial expressions are related to CM, to the presence of mental disorders or to the combination of CM and mental disorders, and on ER of emotional, rather than neutral facial expressions. Moreover, commonly, recognition of static stimulus material was researched. Objective: We assessed recognition of dynamic (closer to real life) negative, positive and neutral facial expressions in individuals characterised by CM, rather than a specific mental disorder. Moreover, we assessed whether they show a negativity bias for neutral facial expressions and whether the presence of one or more mental disorders affects recognition. Methods: Ninety-eight adults with CM experiences (CM+) and 60 non-maltreated (CM−) adult controls watched 200 non-manipulated coloured video sequences, showing 20 neutral and 180 emotional facial expressions, and indicated whether they interpreted each expression as neutral or as one of eight emotions. Results: The CM+ showed significantly lower scores in the recognition of positive, negative and neutral facial expressions than the CM− group (p 
ISSN:2000-8066
2000-8198
2000-8066
DOI:10.1080/20008066.2023.2214388