The association between childhood trauma and emotion recognition is reduced or eliminated when controlling for alexithymia and psychopathy traits.

ABSTRACT: Emotion recognition shows large inter-individual variability, and is substantially affected by childhood trauma as well as modality, emotion portrayed, and intensity. While research suggests childhood trauma influences emotion recognition, it is unclear whether this effect is consistent when controlling for interrelated individual differences. Further, the universality of the effects has not been explored, most studies have not examined differing modalities or intensities. This study examined childhood trauma's association with accuracy, when controlling for alexithymia and psychopathy traits, and if this varied across modality, emotion portrayed, and intensity. An adult sample (N = 122) completed childhood trauma, alexithymia, and psychopathy questionnaires and three emotion tasks: faces,

SUBMITTER: Cooper H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10858958 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature