Dissimilar Deficits of Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition in Patients with Schizophrenia in Taiwan

TY - JOUR

T1 - Dissimilar Deficits of Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition in Patients with Schizophrenia in Taiwan

AU - Tseng, Huai-Hsuan

AU - Huang, Yu-Lien

AU - Chen, Sue-Huei

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Objective: Patients with schizophrenia perform generally worse on various nonverbal emotional measures than healthy participants. But inconsistency of emotion-specific difficulties has been observed among different ethnicities and cultures. Using native stimuli may help minimize these potential confounding factors. Thus, the objective of this study was to apply a culturally suitable, dual modality nonverbal instrument with native stimuli to examine emotional recognition deficits in Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan. Method: We developed the Diagnostic Analysis of Non-verbal Aaccuracy-2-Taiwan to evaluate nonverbal emotion recognition accuracy. We compared emotion cognition and cognitive reservoir between 26 patients with schizophrenia and 39 healthy study participants. Results: Patients with schizophrenia displayed less accuracy in negative emotion recognition, especially significantly less anger for both facial (p <0.01) and prosodic (p < 0.01) emotions, and significantly less fear expression (p < 0.05) for prosodic modality compared to healthy study participants. Conclusion: Emotion-specific deficits might present across different cultures. Prosodic emotion recognition deficit, and specifically anger rather than fear or else recognition, may be a more culture-specific deficit for in schizophrenia in ethnic Han population. Culturally suitable stimuli might provide a more delicate measurement of emotion recognition deficits.

AB - Objective: Patients with schizophrenia perform generally worse on various nonverbal emotional measures than healthy participants. But inconsistency of emotion-specific difficulties has been observed among different ethnicities and cultures. Using native stimuli may help minimize these potential confounding factors. Thus, the objective of this study was to apply a culturally suitable, dual modality nonverbal instrument with native stimuli to examine emotional recognition deficits in Han Chinese patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan. Method: We developed the Diagnostic Analysis of Non-verbal Aaccuracy-2-Taiwan to evaluate nonverbal emotion recognition accuracy. We compared emotion cognition and cognitive reservoir between 26 patients with schizophrenia and 39 healthy study participants. Results: Patients with schizophrenia displayed less accuracy in negative emotion recognition, especially significantly less anger for both facial (p <0.01) and prosodic (p < 0.01) emotions, and significantly less fear expression (p < 0.05) for prosodic modality compared to healthy study participants. Conclusion: Emotion-specific deficits might present across different cultures. Prosodic emotion recognition deficit, and specifically anger rather than fear or else recognition, may be a more culture-specific deficit for in schizophrenia in ethnic Han population. Culturally suitable stimuli might provide a more delicate measurement of emotion recognition deficits.

KW - facial emotion recognition

KW - nonverbal emotion recognition deficit

KW - prosodic emotion recognition

KW - schizophrenia

M3 - Article

SN - 1028-3684

VL - 26

SP - 105

EP - 113

JO - Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry

JF - Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry

ER -