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Judgment of emotion among chronic schizophrenics
Author(s) -
Muzekari Louis H.,
Bates Marsha E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197707)33:3<662::aid-jclp2270330312>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , clinical psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , psychotherapist
This study investigated accuracy of judgment as to posed facial experessions and nonverbal scenes of various emotions. S s were 16 male and 16 female chronic schizophrenics and a normal control group of equal size and sex composition. The results revealed that normal S s were significantly more accurate than schizophrenics in indentifying emotions from both posed photographs of the face and nonverbal videotape scenes, S sex was not found to affect differentially the schizophrenic or normal S s' response accuracy to both the photographs and videotapes. Further, it was observed that both groups' accuracy improved when given multiple‐choice alternatives to select from as contrasted to their open‐ended free responses; this was especially true for the schizophrenic group. Teaching patients to identify and practice expressing discrete emotions was suggested.