Exploring emotion recognition in adults and adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a body motion paradigm

Lang, Katie, Dapelo, Marcela Marin, Khondoker, Mizanur ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1801-1635, Morris, Robin, Surguladze, Simon, Treasure, Janet and Tchanturia, Kate (2015) Exploring emotion recognition in adults and adolescents with anorexia nervosa using a body motion paradigm. European Eating Disorders Review, 23 (4). pp. 262-268. ISSN 1072-4133

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Abstract

Objective: There is consistent evidence of difficulties in social cognition in adults with anorexia nervosa (AN), but less is known about adolescents. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability to recognise emotion expressed in body movement in adults and adolescents with AN.  Method: One hundred and ninety-three females participated in the study (AN=97: 61 adults and 36 adolescents). The performance of participants with AN on a body emotion recognition task was compared to age-matched healthy controls (HC=96).  Results: AN participants were significantly worse than HC recognising sadness, with adolescent AN participants showing worse performance overall. There were no difficulties in the recognition of other emotions.  Discussion: The results partially support previous studies and the literature on facial emotion recognition, showing poorer recognition of sadness in AN. The results also suggest that difficulties in emotion recognition through body movements may be more subtle than other socio-emotional difficulties observed in AN. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	emotion recognition,anorexia nervosa,eating disorders,point light,body motion
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Epidemiology and Public Health Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Public Health and Health Services Research (former - to 2023) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2016 00:24
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 01:45
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60024
DOI:	10.1002/erv.2358

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