Dissociating Profiles of Social Cognitive Disturbances Between
Mixed Personality and Anxiety Disorder

J 2020

Dissociating Profiles of Social Cognitive Disturbances Between Mixed Personality and Anxiety Disorder

CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína, Daniel Joel SHAW, Zuzana POKORNÁ and Milan BRÁZDIL

Basic information

Original name

Dissociating Profiles of Social Cognitive Disturbances Between Mixed Personality and Anxiety Disorder

Authors

CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Daniel Joel SHAW (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, belonging to the institution), Zuzana POKORNÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Milan BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Frontiers in Psychology, LAUSANNE, FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020, 1664-1078

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30103 Neurosciences

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.990

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14740/20:00114114

Organization unit

Central European Institute of Technology

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00563

UT WoS

000525678700001

Keywords in English

Social cognition; personality disorder; anxiety; emotion recognition; imitative control; visual perspective taking; empathy; emotion regulation

Abstract

V originále

Background An emerging body of research has begun to elucidate disturbances to social cognition in specific personality disorders (PDs). No research has been conducted on patients with Mixed Personality Disorder (MPD), however, who meet multiple diagnostic criteria. Further, very few studies have compared social cognition between patients with PD and those presenting with symptomatic diagnoses that co-occur with personality pathologies, such as anxiety disorder (AD). The aim of this study was to provide a detailed characterization of deficits to various aspects of social cognition in MPD and dissociate impairments specific to MPD from those exhibited by patients with AD who differ in the severity of personality pathology. Method Building on our previous research, we administered a large battery of self-report and performance-based measures of social cognition to age-, sex- and education-matched groups of patients with MPD or AD, and healthy control participants (HCs; n = 29, 23, and 54, respectively). This permitted a detailed profiling of these clinical groups according to impairments in emotion recognition and regulation, imitative control, low-level visual perspective taking, and empathic awareness and expression. Results The MPD group demonstrated poorer emotion recognition for negative facial expressions relative to both HCs and AD. Compared with HCs, both clinical groups also performed significantly worse in visual perspective taking and interference resolution, and reported higher personal distress when empathizing and more state-oriented emotion regulation. Conclusion We interpret our results to reflect dysfunctional cognitive control that is common to patients with both MPD and AD. Given the patterns of affective dispositions that characterize these two diagnostic groups, we suggest that prolonged negative affectivity is associated with inflexible styles of emotion regulation and attribution. This might potentiate the interpersonal dysfunction exhibited in MPD, particularly in negatively valenced and challenging social situations.

Links

GA15-16738S, research and development project

Name: Individuální rozdíly v diferenciaci mezi reprezentací sebe a druhých lidí

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

LQ1601, research and development project

Name: CEITEC 2020 (Acronym: CEITEC2020)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína, Daniel Joel SHAW, Zuzana POKORNÁ and Milan BRÁZDIL. Dissociating Profiles of Social Cognitive Disturbances Between Mixed Personality and Anxiety Disorder. Frontiers in Psychology. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020, vol. 11, MAR, p. 1-12. ISSN 1664-1078. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00563.

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CZEKÓOVÁ, Kristína, Daniel Joel SHAW, Zuzana POKORNÁ and Milan BRÁZDIL. Dissociating Profiles of Social Cognitive Disturbances Between Mixed Personality and Anxiety Disorder. \textit{Frontiers in Psychology}. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2020, vol.~11, MAR, p.~1-12. ISSN~1664-1078. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00563.

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