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Emotional Regulation Impairments Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: An Investigation of the Body and Facial Feedback Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2013

Marie Dethier ,
Sylvie Blairy ,
Hannah Rosenberg  and
Skye McDonald
Marie Dethier*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology: Cognition and Behavior, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Sylvie Blairy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology: Cognition and Behavior, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Hannah Rosenberg
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Skye McDonald
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Marie Dethier, University of Liège, Department of Psychology: Cognition and Behavior, Unit of Cognitive and Behavioural Clinical Psychology, Boulevard du Rectorat, 3, (B33) 4000 Liège. Belgium. E-mail: marie.dethier@ulg.ac.be
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Abstract

The object of this study was to evaluate the combined effect of body and facial feedback in adults who had suffered from a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) to gain some understanding of their difficulties in the regulation of negative emotions. Twenty-four participants with TBI and 28 control participants adopted facial expressions and body postures according to specific instructions and maintained these positions for 10 s. Expressions and postures entailed anger, sadness, and happiness as well as a neutral (baseline) condition. After each expression/posture manipulation, participants evaluated their subjective emotional state (including cheerfulness, sadness, and irritation). TBI participants were globally less responsive to the effects of body and facial feedback than control participants, F(1,50) = 5.89, p = .02, η2 = .11. More interestingly, the TBI group differed from the Control group across emotions, F(8,400) = 2.51, p = .01, η2 = .05. Specifically, participants with TBI were responsive to happy but not to negative expression/posture manipulations whereas control participants were responsive to happy, angry, and sad expression/posture manipulations. In conclusion, TBI appears to impair the ability to recognize both the physical configuration of a negative emotion and its associated subjective feeling. (JINS, 2013, 19, 1–13)

Keywords

Affective symptomsAngerBrain injuriesEmotionFacial expressionPosture
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Research Articles
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 2013 , pp. 367 - 379
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2013

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