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Published on: December 7, 2018
Emotion recognition and social functioning in individuals with autism spectrum condition and intellectual disability
Daniela Tamas1, Nina Brkic Jovanovic1, Stanka Stojkov1
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Objective:
Most previous studies have examined emotion recognition in autism spectrum condition (ASC) without intellectual disability (ID). However, ASC and ID co-occur to a high degree. The main aims of the study were to examine emotion recognition in individuals with ASC and co-occurring intellectual disability (ASC-ID) as compared to individuals with ID alone, and to investigate the relationship between emotion recognition and social functioning.
Methods:
The sample consisted of 30 adult participants with ASC-ID and a comparison group of 29 participants with ID. Emotion recognition was assessed by the facial emotions test, while. social functioning was assessed by the social responsiveness scale-second edition (SRS-2).
Results:
The accuracy of emotion recognition was significantly lower in individuals with ASC-ID compared to the control group with ID, especially when it came to identifying angry and fearful emotions. Participants with ASC-ID exhibited more pronounced difficulties in social functioning compared to those with ID, and there was a significant negative correlation between emotion recognition and social functioning. However, emotion recognition accounted for only 8% of the variability observed in social functioning.
Conclusion:
Our data indicate severe difficulties in the social-perceptual domain and in everyday social functioning in individuals with ASC-ID.
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