Among individuals with ASD, however, generative (e.g., comorbid psychopathology, social-cognition deficits, emotion-regulation problems) and associational (e.g., younger age, Asperger's syndrome diagnosis, repetitive behavior) risk factors have been identified or proposed for violent behavior.
Consequently, it is expected that deficits in emotion recognition within these emotion paradigms, ultimately lead to aggressive and violent behaviour3.
Regarding the recognition of emotions, patients with anterior temporal lobectomy have deficits in emotion recognition [ 16].
Conversely, it may be that individuals with ASD have core deficits in emotion regulation, which then account for emotional and behavioral problems in this population, similar to the research on transdiagnostic factors associated with multiple psychiatric comorbidities in the typically developing population (e.g., McLaughlin et al., 2011).
Empirically evidenced deficits in emotion processing in patients with MUS make a CBT enriched with an emotion regulation training (ENCERT) a promising approach to increase treatment effects.
Findings suggest that a trauma-informed intervention may optimize outcomes, helping men who use IPV both limit their use of violence and improve deficits in emotion processing.
Given the greater ecological validity of the stimuli developed for this study, this paradigm may be helpful in elucidating the deficits in emotion perception experienced by clinical populations.
The present study was designed to determine whether parents at high risk for physical child abuse, in comparison with parents at low risk, show deficits in emotion recognition, as well as to examine the moderator effect of gender and stress on the relationship between risk for physical child abuse and emotion recognition.
Numerous studies demonstrate that deficits in emotion regulation skills are likely to help maintain various forms of psychological disorders.
Subjects completed versions of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in order to rule out effects of altered mood states and deficits in emotion perception.
