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The Effects of Training on Emotion Recognition Skills for Adults with an Intellectual Disability
Author(s) -
RydinOrwin Tracy,
Drake Jo,
Bratt Andrew
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1999.tb00081.x
Subject(s) - intellectual disability , training (meteorology) , psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , developmental psychology , learning disability , cognitive psychology , applied psychology , medicine , psychiatry , physics , meteorology
People with intellectual disabilities have long been associated with having a poor recognition of emotion from facial and other cues. It has been suggested that intervention by social skills training may improve their abilities (McAlpine et al. , 1991). This proposition is investigated here. Participants were shown video clips depicting five common emotional states and their ability to label each was recorded. A comparison task of a similar nature but not involving emotion recognition was also used. Participants were matched on their British Picture Vocabulary Scale (BPVS) scores and randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. The experimental group received two training sessions using similar video clips. Finally both groups were re‐tested on the original clips. Using a two‐way, between‐subjects analysis of covariance, a significant improvement with training was found for the emotion‐recognition task ( F (1,5) = 0.79, p < 0.01). A non‐significant increase was recorded for the comparison task ( F (1,5) = 1.57, p > 0.05). A significant correlation ( r = 0.755) was noted between the BPVS scores and subjects' pre‐intervention scores on the emotion‐recognition task.