Affective prosody and facial emotion recognition in first-episode schizophrenia: Associations with functioning & symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Studies indicate that people with schizophrenia experience deficits in their ability to accurately detect emotions, both through facial expressions and voice intonation (i.e., prosody), and that functioning and symptoms are associated with these deficits. This study aimed to examine how facial emotion and affective prosody recognition are related to functioning and symptoms in a first-episode schizophrenia sample. Further, in light of research suggesting variable emotion-specific performance in people with schizophrenia, this study explored emotion-specific performance. Participants were 49 people with a recent first episode of schizophrenia taking part in a larger RCT. Results revealed that affective prosody recognition was significantly correlated with both role and social functioning. R

SUBMITTER: Bonfils KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718049 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature