SynthesisTrauma, violence & abuse2023
Emotion Recognition in Adults With a History of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Children's Sensitivity to Facial Emotional Expressions: The Mediating Roles of Maternal Warmth and Home Environment.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Borderline personality traits and emotion recognition in a non-clinical sample: the role of childhood neglect and abuse.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Emotion identification and emotion sensitivity following interpersonal and non-interpersonal traumatic experiences: Results from the AURORA study.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- The relationship between childhood emotional abuse and maladaptive parenting practices.Child protection and practice · 2025Article
- Early threat experiences relate to reduced neural face discrimination in youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms: a frequency-tagging electroencephalography study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Physical and emotional abuse with internet addiction and anxiety as a mediator and physical activity as a moderator.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Age- and sex-related differences in social competence and emotion labeling in pre-adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Childhood maltreatment is linked to larger preferred interpersonal distances towards friends and strangers across the globe.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Atypical brain structural connectivity and social cognition in childhood maltreatment and peer victimisation.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The association between childhood trauma and emotion recognition is reduced or eliminated when controlling for alexithymia and psychopathy traits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Addressing the Complex Links between Psychopathy and Childhood Maltreatment, Emotion Regulation, and Aggression-A Network Analysis in Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Ability of Children to Recognize Basic Emotions.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Heritability of cognitive and emotion processing during functional MRI in a twin sample.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Adults with a history of childhood maltreatment with and without mental disorders show alterations in the recognition of facial expressions.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Brief and long maternal separation in C57Bl6J mice: behavioral consequences for the dam and the offspring.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Underlying mechanisms of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder in children: A systematic review by means of research domain criteria.JCPP advances · 2022Review
- Childhood maltreatment results in altered deactivation of reward processing circuits in depressed patients: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of a facial emotion recognition task.Neurobiology of stress · 2021Article
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Abstract
Child maltreatment has many well-documented lasting effects on children. Among its consequences, it affects children's recognition of emotions. More and more studies are recognizing the lasting effect that a history of maltreatment can have on emotion recognition. A systematic literature review was conducted to better understand this relationship. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol was used and four databases were searched, MEDLINE/PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and FRANCIS, using three cross-referenced key words: child abuse, emotion recognition, and adults. The search process identified 23 studies that met the inclusion criteria. The review highlights the wide variety of measures used to assess child maltreatment as well as the different protocols used to measure emotion recognition. The results indicate that adults with a history of childhood maltreatment show a differentiated reaction to happiness, anger, and fear. Happiness is less detected, whereas negative emotions are recognized more rapidly and at a lower intensity compared to adults not exposed to such traumatic events. Emotion recognition is also related to greater brain activation for the maltreated group. However, the results are less consistent for adults who also have a diagnosis of mental health problems. The systematic review found that maltreatment affects the perception of emotions expressed on both adult and child faces. However, more research is needed to better understand how a history of maltreatment is related to adults' perception of children's emotions.
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