Facial Affective Behavior in Mental Disorder

Levels of Structural Integration and Facial Expressions of Negative Emotions

“…Some studies (Berenbaum & Oltmanns 1992;Gehricke & Shapiro 2000;Kring & Earnst 1999;Renneberg et al 2005) analysed frequencies of facial affective displays in patients belonging to different diagnostic groups, finding mostly reduced overall expressivity in individuals with mental disorders. Peham et al (2015) did not find differences between diagnostic groups. Investigations concerning the context of facial expressions of emotions in patients with different structural levels of mental disorders are even rarer.…”

“…For the present study, a subsample of 80 women (aged from 18 to 57 years; M = 32.04; SD = 11.99) was gathered out of a larger sample in a research project on emotional and interpersonal processes in mental disorders (Benecke et al 2009;Peham et al 2015).…”

“…Due to the high comorbidity among patients we defined main diagnostic groups. The logic for allocation to these groups is described in detail in Peham et al (2015).…”

“…In the present study, we focused on the three aggressive facial expressions of basic emotions: anger, contempt, and disgust. For details on specific facial movement combinations within the negative basic emotions anger, contempt, and disgust, as well as on the frequency distributions of the total FACS-coded data from the overall research project, see Peham et al (2015). To prove interrater reliability, three expert coders coded 15% of the material.…”

“…An overview of existing studies can be found in Peham et al (2015). Some studies (Berenbaum & Oltmanns 1992;Gehricke & Shapiro 2000;Kring & Earnst 1999;Renneberg et al 2005) analysed frequencies of facial affective displays in patients belonging to different diagnostic groups, finding mostly reduced overall expressivity in individuals with mental disorders.…”