A Developmental Twin Study of Emotion Recognition and Its Negative Affective Clinical Correlates.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Youth with psychiatric disorders distinguished by irritability, including depression and associated trait neuroticism, show deficits in the ability to recognize facial expressions of emotion, particularly happiness. However, the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to this ability remains unknown. The present study examined this trait in twins to assess the genetic and environmental influences on face-emotion recognition abilities and their association with irritability, neuroticism, and depression.

Method

Child and adolescent twins (N = 957 from 496 families) 9 to 17 years old rated their irritability (on the Affective Reactivity Index), neuroticism (on the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire), and depression (on the Short Mood and Feelings Quest

SUBMITTER: Rappaport LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7036262 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature