Roddy, Sarah and Tiedt, L. and Kelleher, Ian and Clarke, Mary C. and Murphy, Jennifer L. and Rawdon, Caroline and Roche, Richard and Calkins, M.E. and Richards, J. and Kohler, C.G. and Cannon, Mary (2012) Facial emotion recognition in adolescents with psychotic-like experiences: a school-based sample from the general population. Psychological Medicine, 42 (10). pp. 2157-2166. ISSN 0033-2917

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Background: Psychotic symptoms, also termed psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in the absence of psychotic disorder, are common in adolescents and are associated with increased risk of schizophrenia-spectrum illness in adulthood. At the same time, schizophrenia is associated with deficits in social cognition, with deficits particularly documented in facial emotion recognition (FER). However, little is known about the relationship between PLEs and FER abilities, with only one previous prospective study examining the association between these abilities in childhood and reported PLEs in adolescence. The current study was a cross-sectional investigation of the association between PLEs and FER in a sample of Irish adolescents. Method: The Adolescent Psychotic-Like Symptom Screener (APSS), a self-report measure of PLEs, and the Penn Emotion Recognition-40 Test (Penn ER-40), a measure of facial emotion recognition, were completed by 793 children aged 10–13 years. Results: Children who reported PLEs performed significantly more poorly on FER (β=−0.03, p=0.035). Recognition of sad faces was the major driver of effects, with children performing particularly poorly when identifying this expression (β=−0.08, p=0.032). Conclusions: The current findings show that PLEs are associated with poorer FER. Further work is needed to elucidate causal relationships with implications for the design of future interventions for those at risk of developing psychosis.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Roddy S, Tiedt L, Kelleher I, Clarke MC, Murphy J, Rawdon C, Roche RA, Calkins ME, Richard JA, Kohler CG, Cannon M. Facial emotion recognition in adolescents with psychotic-like experiences: a school-based sample from the general population. Psychological Medicine. 2012;42(10):2157-66
Keywords:	Adolescent; child; facial emotion recognition; psychotic symptoms; psychotic-like experience;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	10691
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291712000311
Depositing User:	Richard Roche
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2019 16:15
Journal or Publication Title:	Psychological Medicine
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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