Exposure to childhood adversity and deficits in emotion recognition: results from a large, population-based sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emotion recognition skills are essential for social communication. Deficits in these skills have been implicated in mental disorders. Prior studies of clinical and high-risk samples have consistently shown that children exposed to adversity are more likely than their unexposed peers to have emotion recognition skills deficits. However, only one population-based study has examined this association.

Methods

We analyzed data from children participating in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a prospective birth cohort (n = 6,506). We examined the association between eight adversities, assessed repeatedly from birth to age 8 (caregiver physical or emotional abuse; sexual or physical abuse; maternal psychopathology; one adult in the household; family in

SUBMITTER: Dunn EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6041167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature