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Autor/inn/en | Ola, Louise; Gullon-Scott, Fiona |
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Titel | Facial Emotion Recognition in Autistic Adult Females Correlates with Alexithymia, Not Autism |
Quelle | In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 24 (2020) 8, S.2021-2034 (14 Seiten)
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Gullon-Scott, Fiona) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1362-3613 |
DOI | 10.1177/1362361320932727 |
Schlagwörter | Nonverbal Communication; Recognition (Psychology); Emotional Response; Social Cognition; Adults; Females; Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Correlation; Accuracy; Foreign Countries; Personality Traits; United Kingdom (Newcastle upon Tyne) |
Abstract | Research on predominantly male autistic samples has indicated that impairments in facial emotion recognition typically associated with autism spectrum conditions are instead due to co-occurring alexithymia. However, whether this could be demonstrated using more realistic facial emotion recognition stimuli and applied to autistic females was unclear. In all, 83 females diagnosed with autism spectrum condition completed online self-report measures of autism spectrum condition severity and alexithymia, and afacial emotion recognition deficit that assessed their ability to identify multimodal displays of complex emotions. Higher levels of alexithymia, but not autism spectrum condition severity, were associated with less accurate facial emotion recognition. Difficulty identifying one's own feelings and externally oriented thinking were the components of alexithymia that were specifically related to facial emotion recognition accuracy. However, alexithymia (and autism spectrum condition severity) was not associated with speed of emotion processing. The findings are primarily discussed with the theoretical view that perceiving and experiencing emotions share the same neural networks, thus being able to recognise one's own emotions may facilitate the ability to recognise others'. This study is in line with previous similar research on autistic males and suggests impairments in facial emotion recognition in autistic females should be attributed to co-occurring alexithymia. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |