Facial emotion recognition in schizophrenia: the impact of gender.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	Erol, Almıla Putgul, Gulperi Kosger, Ferdi Ersoy, Bilal
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	ObjectivePrevious studies reported gender differences for facial emotion recognition in healthy people, with women performing better than men. Few studies that examined gender differences for facial emotion recognition in schizophrenia brought out inconsistent findings. The aim of this study is to investigate gender differences for facial emotion identification and discrimination abilities in patients with schizophrenia.Methods35 female and 35 male patients with schizophrenia, along with 35 female and 35 male healthy controls were included in the study. All the subjects were evaluated with Facial Emotion Identification Test (FEIT), Facial Emotion Discrimination Test (FEDT), and Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT). Patients' psychopathological symptoms were rated by means of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS).ResultsMale patients performed significantly worse than female patients on FEIT total, and negative scores. Male controls performed significantly worse than female controls on FEIT total and negative scores. On all tasks, female patients performed comparable with controls. Male patients performed significantly worse than controls on FEIT, and FEDT.ConclusionWomen with schizophrenia outperformed men for facial emotion recognition ability in a pattern that is similar with the healthy controls. It could be claimed that male patients with schizophrenia need special consideration for emotion perception deficits.
ISSN	17383684
Journal	Psychiatry Investigation
Volume Number	10
PubMed Central reference number	PMC3590433
Issue Number	1
PubMed reference number	23482852
e-ISSN	19763026
DOI	10.4306/pi.2013.10.1.69
Language	English
Publisher	Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
Publisher Date	2013-01-25
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2013 Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
Subject Keyword	Facial emotion Recognition Schizophrenia Gender Sex
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biological Psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental Health