Protocol for a between-group experimental study examining cultural differences in emotion processing between Malay and Caucasian adults with and without major depressive disorder

Mohan, Sindhu Nair; Mukhtar, Firdaus; Jobson, Laura

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012774

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“…Thus, even though the information presented in PLDs is extremely limited, the stimuli are sufficient to elicit disorder-specific, social cognitive biases. Recognition of basic emotions conveyed by biological motion has been found to be relatively unaffected by cultural factors (Parkinson et al, 2017 ), thus PLDs may be effectively employed to study cross-cultural factors affecting social functioning in psychiatric populations (Mohan et al, 2016 ).…”

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It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders

Okruszek

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Social neuroscience offers a wide range of techniques that may be applied to study the social cognitive deficits that may underlie reduced social functioning—a common feature across many psychiatric disorders. At the same time, a significant proportion of research in this area has been conducted using paradigms that utilize static displays of faces or eyes. The use of point-light displays (PLDs) offers a viable alternative for studying recognition of emotion or intention inference while minimizing the amount of information presented to participants. This mini-review aims to summarize studies that have used PLD to study emotion and intention processing in schizophrenia (SCZ), affective disorders, anxiety and personality disorders, eating disorders and neurodegenerative disorders. Two main conclusions can be drawn from the reviewed studies: first, the social cognitive problems found in most of the psychiatric samples using PLD were of smaller magnitude than those found in studies presenting social information using faces or voices. Second, even though the information presented in PLDs is extremely limited, presentation of these types of stimuli is sufficient to elicit the disorder-specific, social cognitive biases (e.g., mood-congruent bias in depression, increased threat perception in anxious individuals, aberrant body size perception in eating disorders) documented using other methodologies. Taken together, these findings suggest that point-light stimuli may be a useful method of studying social information processing in psychiatry. At the same time, some limitations of using this methodology are also outlined.

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It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders

Okruszek

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Psychosocial Risk Factors for Depression Among Married Muslim Mothers in Malaysia

Kadir

Griffiths

2021

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Is a picture worth the same emotions everywhere? Validation of images from the Nencki affective picture system in Malaysia

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Lee,

Gill

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Discov Ment Health

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Several validated image sets, such as NAPS, IAPS, GAPED, and OASIS, have been developed to elicit affective states. However, these image sets were primarily validated on Western populations within European and American contexts, and none have been fully validated in a Southeast Asian sample, where emotional restraint may also be valued similarly to the East Asian contexts. This study aimed to validate and provide norms for the Nencki Affective Picture System (NAPS; Marchewka et al., 2014) within a Malaysian sample. Subsets from the 1356 NAPS images consisting of five image categories (faces, people, objects, landscapes, animals) were presented sequentially to 409 Malaysian adults aged 18 and above, who rated images for valence, arousal and approach/avoidance on a 9-point Likert scale. Valence, arousal and approach/avoidance norms were compared against the original European sample. Malaysian men and women rated images with lower valence and motivation than Europeans, but Malaysian men showed higher arousal ratings compared to European men, while Malaysian women exhibited the opposite pattern, with lower arousal ratings than European women. A linear regression was found instead of a classic ‘boomerang’ shaped quadratic regression previously observed in Western samples, suggesting that emotional suppression may be at play, in line with social norms. The Malaysian normative ratings will be freely available to all researchers.

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Protocol for a between-group experimental study examining cultural differences in emotion processing between Malay and Caucasian adults with and without major depressive disorder

Cited by 3 publications

References 57 publications

It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders

It Is Not Just in Faces! Processing of Emotion and Intention from Biological Motion in Psychiatric Disorders

Psychosocial Risk Factors for Depression Among Married Muslim Mothers in Malaysia

Is a picture worth the same emotions everywhere? Validation of images from the Nencki affective picture system in Malaysia

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