Sex Differences in Facial, Prosodic, and Social Context Emotional Recognition in Early-Onset Schizophrenia | Zendy

Julieta RamosLoyo | Zendy; Leonor Mora-Reynoso | Zendy; Luis Miguel Sánchez Loyo | Zendy; Virginia Medina-Hernández | Zendy

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Sex Differences in Facial, Prosodic, and Social Context Emotional Recognition in Early-Onset Schizophrenia

Author(s) -

Julieta RamosLoyo,

Leonor Mora-Reynoso,

Luis Miguel Sánchez Loyo,

Virginia Medina-Hernández

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

schizophrenia research and treatment

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.464

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 2090-2085

pISSN - 2090-2093

DOI - 10.1155/2012/584725

Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , empathy , emotional prosody , facial expression , emotion recognition , developmental psychology , social environment , happiness , positive and negative syndrome scale , audiology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychosis , psychiatry , perception , social psychology , communication , paleontology , neuroscience , political science , law , biology

The purpose of the present study was to determine sex differences in facial, prosodic, and social context emotional recognition in schizophrenia (SCH). Thirty-eight patients (SCH, 20 females) and 38 healthy controls (CON, 20 females) participated in the study. Clinical scales (BPRS and PANSS) and an Affective States Scale were applied, as well as tasks to evaluate facial, prosodic, and within a social context emotional recognition. SCH showed lower accuracy and longer response times than CON, but no significant sex differences were observed in either facial or prosody recognition. In social context emotions, however, females showed higher empathy than males with respect to happiness in both groups. SCH reported being more identified with sad films than CON and females more with fear than males. The results of this study confirm the deficits of emotional recognition in male and female patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy subjects. Sex differences were detected in relation to social context emotions and facial and prosodic recognition depending on age.

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