Theory of mind in adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia: correlations with clinical assessment and executive functions

Bourgou, Soumaya; Halayem, Soumeyya; Amado, Isabelle; Triki, R.; Bourdel, Marie‐Chantal; Franck, Nicolás; Krebs, Marie‐Odile; Tabbane, Karim; Bouden, Asma

doi:10.1017/neu.2016.3

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“…While social cognition is under-investigated even in the healthy teenage population, the research demands in adolescents with mental disorders are even higher. In some disorders, including schizophrenia (Bourgou et al, 2016;Li et al, 2017), ASD and Asperger's syndrome (Kaland et al, 2008), ToM has been investigated more thoroughly even in adolescent samples. For other conditions, such as social anxiety disorder (Öztürk et al, 2020), conduct disorder (Arango Tobón et al, 2017), personality disorders (Sharp et al, 2011) or bipolar disorder (Schenkel et al, 2008), the evidence is still very limited and more research is urgently needed.…”

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A revised instrument for the assessment of empathy and Theory of Mind in adolescents: Introducing the EmpaToM-Y

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Empathy and Theory of Mind (ToM) are two core components of social understanding. The EmpaToM is a validated social video task that allows for independent manipulation and assessment of the two capacities. First applications revealed that empathy and ToM are dissociable constructs on a neuronal as well as on a behavioral level. As the EmpaToM has been designed for the assessment of social understanding in adults, it has a high degree of complexity and comprises topics that are inadequate for minors. For this reason, we designed a new version of the EmpaToM that is especially suited to measure empathy and ToM in youths. In experiment 1, we successfully validated the EmpaToM-Y on the original EmpaToM in an adult sample (N = 61), revealing a similar pattern of results across tasks and strong correlations of all constructs. As intended, the performance measure for ToM and the control condition of the EmpaToM-Y showed reduced difficulty. In experiment 2, we tested the feasibility of the EmpaToM-Y in a group of teenagers (N = 36). Results indicate a reliable empathy induction and higher demands of ToM questions for adolescents. We provide a promising task for future research targeting inter-individual variability of socio-cognitive and socio-affective capacities as well as their precursors and outcomes in healthy minors and clinical populations.

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