2014
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086093
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The Relationship between Child Maltreatment and Emotion Recognition

Abstract: Child abuse and neglect affect the development of social cognition in children and inhibit social adjustment. The purpose of this study was to compare the ability to identify the emotional states of others between abused and non-abused children. The participants, 129 children (44 abused and 85 non-abused children), completed a children’s version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET). Results showed that the mean accuracy rate on the RMET for abused children was significantly lower than the rate of th… Show more

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“…Results were mixed as to whether maltreatment predicted lower ToM performance or had no relation to ToM, with the most consistent significant association occurring between maltreatment and impaired emotion understanding. Koizumi and Takagishi (2014) also analyzed ToM skills in 6-to 17-year-old children using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task. Children in the maltreatment group performed worse at identifying emotions than nonmaltreated children, but only for positive faces.…”
Section: Maltreatment: An Extreme Negative Family Environmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Results were mixed as to whether maltreatment predicted lower ToM performance or had no relation to ToM, with the most consistent significant association occurring between maltreatment and impaired emotion understanding. Koizumi and Takagishi (2014) also analyzed ToM skills in 6-to 17-year-old children using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes task. Children in the maltreatment group performed worse at identifying emotions than nonmaltreated children, but only for positive faces.…”
Section: Maltreatment: An Extreme Negative Family Environmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A study that used the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET; Baron-Cohen et al, 2001), a somewhat more difficult task involving the recognition of more varied facial emotions (i.e. “joyful”, “bored”, “impatient”) using only partial face stimuli, found impaired accuracy in maltreated children compared to non-maltreated children, specifically with regard to positive emotions (Koizumi and Takagishi, 2014). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Contrariamente aos estudos atrás referidos, estes resultados mostram que as crianças maltratadas não tendem a expressar níveis mais elevados de zanga (Erickson et al, 1989), nem a evidenciar maior reatividade às expressões faciais desta emoção (Cicchetti & Curtis, 2005;Pollak et al, 2001) ou hipervigilância aos estímulos de valência emocional negativa (Ayoub et al, 2006). São, também, dissonantes face à investigação que mostra que as crianças maltratadas têm mais dificuldade na descodificação emocional do que as crianças não maltratadas (Koizumi & Takagishi, 2014;Pears & Fisher, 2005;Pollak et al, 2001), e que apresentam uma atenção seletiva aos estímulos negativos, em detrimento dos positivos (Pollak et al, 1998).…”
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“…A capacidade de descodificar conflitos e a emocionalidade por eles despoletada é influenciada pelas representações mentais da criança sobre si própria e o outro, e tem, ao mesmo tempo, impacto nestas representações (Oppenheim, 2006). A investigação mostra que as crianças maltratadas têm mais dificuldade em descodificar as emoções do outro (Koizumi & Takagishi, 2014;Pears & Fisher, 2005) e que apresentam uma atenção seletiva aos estímulos negativos, o que restringe os seus recursos atencionais para processar os estímulos positivos (Pollak, Cicchetti, Hornung, & Reed, 2000;Pollak, Cicchetii, & Klorman, 1998). Com efeito, as crianças vítimas de mau-trato físico, não só reconhecem, com maior precisão, as expressões de zanga, como tendem a identificar esta emoção, quando confrontadas com expressões ambíguas, em contextos em que não seria esperado que ela surgisse (Pollak et al, 2001).…”
Section: As Narrativas Como Veículo De Acesso à Expressividade Emociounclassified
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