ArticlePsychiatry research2017
Emotional word usage in groups at risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: An objective investigation of attention to emotion.
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- Weighting Assessment of the Effect of Chinese State-Changing Words on Emotions.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2023Article
- Clues from caregiver emotional language usage highlight the link between putative social environment and the psychosis-risk syndrome.Schizophrenia research · 2023Article
- Eliciting Expressions of Emotion: An Exploratory Analysis of Alexithymia in Adults with Autism Utilising the APRQ.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Explicit and Implicit Affect and Judgment in Schizotypy.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Alexithymia as a Bridge Between Negative Affect and Schizotypy: A Cross-Sectional Network Model.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
Both extreme levels of social anhedonia (SocAnh) and extreme levels of perceptual aberration/magical ideation (PerMag) indicate increased risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and are associated with emotional deficits. For SocAnh, there is evidence of self-reported decreased trait positive affect and abnormalities in emotional attention. For PerMag, there is evidence of increased trait negative affect and increased attention to negative emotion. Yet, the nature of more objective emotional abnormalities in these groups is unclear. The goal of this study was to assess attention to emotions more objectively in a SocAnh, PerMag, and control group by using a positive (vs. neutral) mood induction procedure followed by a free writing period. Linguistic analyses revealed that the SocAnh group used fewer positive emotion words than the control group, with the PerMag group falling in between the others. In addition, both at-risk groups used more negative emotion words than the control group. Also, for the control group only, those in the positive mood induction used more positive emotion words, suggesting their emotions influenced their linguistic expression. Overall, SocAnh is associated with decreased positive emotional expression and at-risk groups are associated with increased negative emotional expression and a decreased influence of emotions on linguistic expression.
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