Effekter av ADHD og symptomer på sosial angst på gjenkjenning av emosjonelle ansiktsuttrykk
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The aim of the current experimental study was to investigate the influences of ADHD and symptoms of social anxiety on emotion recognition in faces. Norwegian youths aged 11-17 years with (n = 34) and without (n = 33) ADHD completed The Emotion Recognition Task (ERT). They also filled out the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), a questionnaire measuring self-reported levels of social anxiety. A series of hierarchical linear regression analyses showed that higher levels of social anxiety predicted significantly more variable response time and a tendency to have a longer response time, also when controlling for ADHD. However, as expected, higher levels of social anxiety did not predict the number of correct answers on ERT. Univariate between-group analyses showed that the youths in the ADHD group specifically had significantly fewer correct answers on ERT than the control group. In addition, bivariate correlation analyses showed that the youths with ADHD had a higher frequency of choosing happy faces and a lower frequency of choosing sad faces than the controls. Symptoms of social anxiety did not correlate significantly with any of the emotions. The current findings suggest that typically co-occurring emotional problems with ADHD such as high levels of social anxiety is important to take into account when studying the effect of ADHD on emotion recognition. This indicates that anxiety may affect the social cognition of adolescents with ADHD.
Language: Norwegian
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2784464189