Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion by Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Singh, Shruti; Ellis, Cynthia R.; Winton, Alan S. W.; Singh, Nirbhay N.; Leung, Jin Pang; Oswald, Donald P.

doi:10.1177/01454455980222002

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“…This difficulty may be related to the complex dynamics of self-perception of anger and distorted empathy in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder [27,28]. In another study [29], children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder tended to reciprocately mistake anger for disgust. This finding contrasts with the general tendency displayed by children with a history of abuse [30] or with conduct disorder [15] to misinterpret emotions as anger.…”

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“…In this study, an emotional facial expressions decoding task previously developed in adults, but increasingly used in pediatric neuropsychological studies [11][12][13], was utilized. Children with predominantly hyperactive-impulsive attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder made significantly more errors when labeling emotional facial expressions than control children.…”

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Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls

Kornreich

Foisy

Philippot³

et al. 2003

Psychiatry Research

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In ADHD, impaired interpersonal relationships have been documented. They have been hypothesized to be secondary to impairment of receptive nonverbal language. Recognition of emotional facial expressions is an important aspect of receptive nonverbal language, and it has been demonstrated to be central to organization of emotional and social behavior. This study investigated the identification of facial expression of four emotions (joy, anger, disgust, and sadness) in a group of 30 children aged 7-12 years who met the DSM-IV criteria for ADHD disorder of the predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type and have no comorbid mental retardation, specific learning difficulties, developmental coordination disorder, pervasive developmental disorders, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, or substance abuse, and in 30 matched unimpaired control children. The test used includes 16 validated photographs depicting these emotions in varying intensities constructed by morphing. Children with ADHD exhibited a general deficit in decoding emotional facial expressions, with specific deficit in identifying anger and sadness. Self-rating of the task difficulty revealed lack of awareness of decoding errors in the ADHD group as compared with control subjects. Within the ADHD group, there was a significant correlation between interpersonal problems and emotional facial expression decoding impairment, which was more marked for anger expressions. These results suggest suboptimal nonverbal decoding abilities in ADHD that may have important implications for therapy.

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Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls

Kornreich

Foisy

Philippot³

et al. 2003

Psychiatry Research

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“…videogames, mapping task) (Lawrence, Houghton, Tannock, Douglas, Durkin & Whiting, 2002). Additionally, youth with ADHD have difficulty identifying and processing negative emotions (Norvilitis, Casey, Brooklier, & Bonello, 2000;Singh et al, 1998), which may interfere with their ability to persist in goal-directed activity as well.…”

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Emotion Regulation Mediates the Relationship between ADHD and Depressive Symptoms in Youth

Seymour

Chronis‐Tuscano

Halldorsdottir

et al. 2011

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…Although the ability to directly express or understand facial expressions of emotion has yet to be studied among adolescent LD populations, children and adolescents with other exceptionalities, such as those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (Singh, et al, 1998), emotional and behavioral disorders (Ellis, et al, 1997), as weIl as children with mental retardation (Mc1pine, Singh, Kendall, & Ellis, 1992) have been shown to be less accurate on tasks that assess general understanding of facial expressions of emotion.…”

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Recognition, Expression, and Understanding Facial Expressions of Emotion in Adolescents With Nonverbal and General Learning Disabilities

Bloom¹,

Heath

2009

J Learn Disabil

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Children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD) have been found to be worse at recognizing facial expressions than children with verbal learning disabilities (LD) and without LD. However, little research has been done with adolescents. In addition, expressing and understanding facial expressions is yet to be studied among adolescents with LD subtypes. This study examined abilities of adolescents with NVLD, with general learning disabilities (GLD), and without LD to recognize, express, and understand facial expressions of emotion. Adolescents were grouped into those with NVLD, with GLD, and without LD using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Third Edition (short form) and Wide Range Achievement Test—Third Edition. The adolescents completed neuropsychological, recognition, expression, and understanding measures. It is intriguing that the GLD group was significantly less accurate at recognizing and understanding facial expressions compared with the NVLD and NLD groups, who did not differ. Implications are explored with regard to the need to consider possible deficits in recognition and understanding of emotion in adolescents with LD in schools.

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Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion by Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Cited by 137 publications

References 28 publications

Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls

Impaired emotional facial expression recognition in alcoholics, opiate dependence subjects, methadone maintained subjects and mixed alcohol-opiate antecedents subjects compared with normal controls

Emotion Regulation Mediates the Relationship between ADHD and Depressive Symptoms in Youth

Recognition, Expression, and Understanding Facial Expressions of Emotion in Adolescents With Nonverbal and General Learning Disabilities

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