Judgment of emotion among chronic schizophrenics

✍ Scribed by Louis H. Muzekari; Marsha E. Bates

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 363 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(197707)33:3<662::aid-jclp2270330312>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

This study investigated accuracy of judgment as to posed facial expressions and nonverbal scenes of various emotions. Ss were 16 male and 16 female chronic schizophrenics and a normal control group of equal size and sex composition. The results revealed that normal Ss were significantly more accurate than schiao hrenics in identifying emotions from both posed photographs of the face an$ nonverbal videotape scenes. S sex was not found to affect differentially the schizophrenic or normal 8s' response accuracy to both the photographs and videotapes. Further, it was cbserved that both groups' accuracy improved when given multiple-choice alternatives to select from as contrasted to their open-ended free responses; this was especially true for the schizophrenic group. Teaching atients t o identify and practice expressing discrete emotions was suggestel