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Emotional awareness for self and others and empathic abilities in clinical depression during acute illness and recovery
| Τίτλος: | Emotional awareness for self and others and empathic abilities in clinical depression during acute illness and recovery |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Müller, Janine, Herpertz, Julian, Taylor, Jacob, Suslow, Thomas, Lane, Richard D., Donges, Uta-Susan |
| Πηγή: | BMC Psychiatry BMC Psychiatry, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2024) |
| Στοιχεία εκδότη: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024. |
| Έτος έκδοσης: | 2024 |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | Psychiatry, Male, Adult, Clinical depression, Depression, Research, Emotions, RC435-571, Emotional awareness, Middle Aged, Awareness, Self Concept, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Female [MeSH], Emotions/physiology [MeSH], Awareness/physiology [MeSH], Adult [MeSH], Empathy/physiology [MeSH], Humans [MeSH], Longitudinal Studies [MeSH], Middle Aged [MeSH], German electronic levels of emotional awareness scale, Empathy, Acute Disease [MeSH], Male [MeSH], Self Concept [MeSH], Depression/psychology [MeSH], Longitudinal study, Acute Disease, Humans, Female, Longitudinal Studies |
| Περιγραφή: | Background The present longitudinal investigation had two major goals. First, we intended to clarify whether depressed patients are characterized by impairments of emotional awareness for the self and the other during acute illness and whether these impairments diminish in the course of an inpatient psychiatric treatment program. Previous research based on the performance measure Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale (LEAS) provided inconsistent findings concerning emotional self-awareness in clinical depression. Second, we investigated whether cognitive and affective empathic abilities change from acute illness to recovery in depressed patients. Methods Fifty-eight depressed patients were tested on admission and after 6–8 weeks of inpatient psychiatric treatment. A sample of fifty-three healthy individuals were also examined twice at an interval of 6–8 weeks. The LEAS and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) were administered to assess emotional awareness and empathic abilities. Written texts were digitalized and then analyzed using the electronic scoring program geLEAS, the German electronic Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale. Results Depressed patients reported more depressive symptoms than healthy controls and less severe depressive symptomatology at time 2 compared to time 1. Independent of time, depressed individuals tended to show lower geLEAS self scores and had lower geLEAS other scores than healthy individuals. Depressed patients showed higher personal distress scores than healthy individuals at both measurement times. No group differences were observed for the cognitive empathy scales of the IRI (perspective taking and fantasy) and empathic concern, but empathic concern decreased significantly in depressed patients from time 1 to time 2. Empathic abilities as assessed by the IRI were not significantly correlated with emotional awareness for others, neither in the whole sample, nor in the patient and control subsample. Conclusions Depressed patients seem to be characterized by impairments in emotional awareness of others during acute illness and recovery, but they also tend to show deficits in emotional self-awareness compared to healthy individuals. Self-reported cognitive empathic abilities seem to be at normal levels in depressed patients, but their heightened self-focused affective empathy may represent a vulnerability factor for depressive disorders. |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: | Article Other literature type |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| ISSN: | 1471-244X |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12888-024-05877-y |
| Σύνδεσμος πρόσβασης: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38965469 https://doaj.org/article/4ff0b1ab449d4ba08a170277b7ec3413 https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6505998 |
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| Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: | edsair.doi.dedup.....b17ccc702f7d8df91fc684f1ee974880 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 1471244X |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s12888-024-05877-y |