Emotional awareness for self and others and empathic abilities in clinical depression during acute illness and recovery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The present longitudinal investigation had two major goals. First, we intended to clarify whether depressed patients are characterized by impairments of emotional awareness for the self and the other during acute illness and whether these impairments diminish in the course of an inpatient psychiatric treatment program. Previous research based on the performance measure Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) provided inconsistent findings concerning emotional self-awareness in clinical depression. Second, we investigated whether cognitive and affective empathic abilities change from acute illness to recovery in depressed patients.

Methods

Fifty-eight depressed patients were tested on admission and after 6-8 weeks of inpatient psychiatric treatment. A sample of

SUBMITTER: Muller J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11225305 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature