Facial emotion recognition in adolescents with personality pathology |
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Authors: | Fleur Berenschot Marcel A G van Aken Christel Hessels Bram Orobio de Castro Ysbrand Pijl Barbara Montagne Guus van Voorst |
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Institution: | 1. GGZ-Centraal Psychiatric Center, Amersfoort, The Netherlands 2. Triversum, Center for Child and Youth Psychiatry, Alkmaar, The Netherlands 5. Triversum, Kees Boekestraat 5, 1817 EZ, Alkmaar, The Netherlands 3. Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 4. Center for Adolescent Psychiatry, Reinier van Arkel group, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
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Abstract: | It has been argued that a heightened emotional sensitivity interferes with the cognitive processing of facial emotion recognition and may explain the intensified emotional reactions to external emotional stimuli of adults with personality pathology, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study examines if and how deviations in facial emotion recognition also occur in adolescents with personality pathology. Forty-two adolescents with personality pathology, 111 healthy adolescents and 28 psychiatric adolescents without personality pathology completed the Emotion Recognition Task, measuring their accuracy and sensitivity in recognizing positive and negative emotion expressions presented in several, morphed, expression intensities. Adolescents with personality pathology showed an enhanced recognition accuracy of facial emotion expressions compared to healthy adolescents and clients with various Axis-I psychiatric diagnoses. They were also more sensitive to less intensive expressions of emotions than clients with various Axis-I psychiatric diagnoses, but not more than healthy adolescents. As has been shown in research on adults with BPD, adolescents with personality pathology show enhanced facial emotion recognition. |
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