Social Approach and Emotion Recognition in Fragile X Syndrome

Evidence is emerging that individuals with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) display emotion recognition deficits, which may contribute to their significant social difficulties. The current study investigated the emotion recognition abilities, and social approachability judgments, of FXS individuals when pro...

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Published in:American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities 2014-03, Vol.119 (2), p.133-150
Main Authors: Williams, Tracey A, Porter, Melanie A, Langdon, Robyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Anxiety
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Chromosome fragility (bloom syndrome, ataxia telangiectasia, fanconi anemia, x-linked mental retardation...)
Emotional Experience
Emotional Response
Emotions
Emotions - physiology
Evidence
Female
Females
Fragile X Syndrome - physiopathology
Genetic Disorders
Humans
Hyperactivity
Interpersonal Competence
Interpersonal Relationship
Male
Males
Medical genetics
Medical sciences
Mental Age
Mental Disorders
Mental Retardation
Patients
Phobic Disorders - physiopathology
Recognition (Psychology) - physiology
Schizophrenia
Social Development
Social Environment
Social Perception
Social research
Stimuli
Studies
Young Adult
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Summary:Evidence is emerging that individuals with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) display emotion recognition deficits, which may contribute to their significant social difficulties. The current study investigated the emotion recognition abilities, and social approachability judgments, of FXS individuals when processing emotional stimuli. Relative to chronological age- (CA-) and mental age- (MA-) matched controls, the FXS group performed significantly more poorly on the emotion recognition tasks, and displayed a bias towards detecting negative emotions. Moreover, after controlling for emotion recognition deficits, the FXS group displayed significantly reduced ratings of social approachability. These findings suggest that a social anxiety pattern, rather than poor socioemotional processing, may best explain the social avoidance observed in FXS.
ISSN:1944-7515
1944-7558
DOI:10.1352/1944-7558-119.2.133