Prosody and lexical accuracy in flat affect schizophrenia
Prosody and lexical accuracy in flat affect schizophrenia
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DOI：
10.1016/s0165-1781(00)00231-6
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发表时间：
2000-12-27
影响因子：
11.3
通讯作者：
Shaw, RJ
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作者：
Alpert, M;Rosenberg, SD;Shaw, RJ
为了检验精神分裂症患者的hat情感涉及运动表达缺陷而非情感缺陷这一假设，我们比较了al-e用来表达情感的语音的声学特性与词语的情感内容。根据DSM-III-R精神分裂症患者的评定量表得分，将其分为情感平坦组（N = 20）和情感非平坦组（N = 26）。还包括20名正常受试者。受试者被记录在录音带上，因为他们描述了一个快乐和悲伤的经历约10分钟。录音进行了分析，声学流畅性和两种类型的韵律：拐点和重点。从录音的transmittance的话进行了分类的内容分析软件到心理有意义的类别，我们比较了“pleasurc”和“distress”的词类别。情感平淡的患者说话时音调变化较少，也不流利。然而，他们在使用“快乐”词来描述快乐经历和“悲伤”词来描述悲伤经历的比率方面与其他组相似。情绪低落的行为缺陷似乎仅限于交流运动通道的活动减少。情绪处理的其他方面似乎完好无损。(C)2000爱思唯尔科学爱尔兰有限公司保留所有权利。
To test the hypothesis that hat affect in schizophrenia involves a motor-expressive deficiency, but not an emotional deficiency, we compared the acoustic properties of speech that al-e used to express emotion with the emotional content of the words. DSM-III-R schizophrenic patients were divided into flat (N = 20) and nun-flat affect (N = 26) groups on the basis of rating-scale scores. Twenty normal subjects also were included. Subjects were recorded on audio tape as they described a happy and a sad experience for about 10 min. The recordings were analyzed acoustically for fluency and for two types of prosody: inflection and emphasis. Words from transcriptions of the recordings were sorted by content analysis software into psychologically meaningful categories; we compared 'pleasurc' and 'distress' word categories. Patients with flat affect spoke with less inflection, and were less fluent. However, they were similar to the other groups in the rate at which they used 'pleasure' words to describe happy experiences and 'distress' words to describe sad experiences. The behavioral deficiency in flat affect appears to be restricted to reduced activity in communicative motor channels. Other aspects of emotion processing seem intact. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.