title: Korean facial emotion recognition tasks for schizophrenia research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Despite the fact that facial emotion recognition (FER) tasks using Western faces should be applied with caution to non-Western participants or patients, there are few psychometrically sound and validated FER tasks featuring Easterners' facial expressions for emotions. Thus, we aimed to develop and establish the psychometric properties of the Korean Facial Emotion Identification Task (K-FEIT) and the Korean Facial Emotion Discrimination Task (K-FEDT) for individuals with schizophrenia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The K-FEIT and K-FEDT were administered to 42 Korean individuals with schizophrenia to evaluate their psychometric properties. To test the convergent and divergent validities, the Social Behavior Sequencing Task (SBST) and hinting task were administered as social-cognitive measures, and the Trail Making Test (TMT)-A and -B were administered as neurocognitive measures.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Average accuracy on the K-FEIT and K-FEDT were 63% and 74%, respectively, and internal consistencies of the K-FEIT and K-FEDT were 0.82 and 0.95, respectively. The K-FEIT and K-FEDT were significantly correlated with SBST and Hinting Task, but not with TMT-A and B.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Following replication studies in a larger sample, the K-FEIT and K-FEDT are expected to facilitate future studies targeting facial emotion recognition in schizophrenia in Korea. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
authors: Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors: Yong-Chun
authors: YC
authors: Bahk
authors: Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors: Seon-Keong
authors: SK
authors: Jang
authors: Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors: Jee Ye
authors: JY
authors: Lee
authors: Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors: Kee-Hong
authors: KH
authors: Choi
keywords: Facial emotion discrimination; Facial emotion identification; Facial emotion recognition; Schizophrenia; Social cognition