title: Emotion recognition as a function of social competence and depressed mood in individuals with intellectual disability.
abstract: The present study was designed to test whether social competence and mood were predictive of the performance by adults with mild or moderate intellectual disability on a matching-to-sample task using facially expressed emotions as stimuli. Thirty-eight subjects were assigned to either a depressed mood group or a non-depressed mood group based on their scores on the two depression sub-scales of the Reiss Screen for Maladaptive Behavior. The groups were matched on sex, age and level of intellectual disability. Each group consisted of 10 women and nine men; 12 participants in each group had mild and seven had moderate intellectual disability, respectively. Social competence was assessed with the Social Performance Survey Schedule (SPSS). Performance on the matching-to-sample task correlated positively with the subjects' level of intellectual disability, their mood scores and the scores on the Appropriate Skills sub-scale of the SPSS. The implications of these findings for social skills training programmes and limitations of this study are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Nisonger Center for Developmental Disabilities, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rojahn
authors.forename: V J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Warren
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003071:Cognition; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D012951:Socialization