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Emotion Recognition IN Disturbed AND Normal Children: A Research Note
Author(s) -
Walker Elaine
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1981.tb00551.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , facial expression , psychosis , clinical psychology , identification (biology) , interpersonal communication , anxiety , audiology , psychiatry , social psychology , communication , medicine , botany , biology
SUMMARY The identification of facial expressions of emotion was studied in three groups of psychiatrically disturbed children and it control group of normal children, The results showed that schizophrenic children were significantly less accurate than unsocialized‐aggressive. anxious‐depressed, and normal children in their identification of the emotions. Anxious‐depressed children showed less pronounced emotion recognition deficits than schizophrenics; however, they also made significantly more errors than the controls. The unsocialized‐aggressive children did not differ from the normal controls, The results are discussed in light of the implications of emotion recognition for interpersonal functioning.