Increased deficits in emotion recognition and regulation in children and adolescents with exogenous obesity

Abstract

Improved understanding of emotional recognition and emotion regulation in young people with obesity may improve their social adaptation and help in the treatment of their disorder. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate both emotional recognition and emotion regulation functions in obese children and obese adolescents between 11 and 18 years of age.

Effect of the catechol‐O‐methyltransferase Val 158Met polymorphism on theory of mind in obesity

“…Our results extend those reported in a recent study (Percinel et al, ) showing lower performance in the RME related to obesity in a sample of children and adolescents. Our results partially agree with those described by Percinel et al (), because our subjects with obesity also showed a lower performance in the test. However, in our study, patients with obesity showed reduced performance only in the identification of negative stimuli.…”

“…Several studies have reported impaired theory of mind in anorexic patients (Russell, Schmidt, Doherty, Young, & Tchanturia, ; Tapajóz Pereira de Sampaio, Soneira, Aulicino, & Allegri, ), whereas it seems to be preserved in patients with bulimia (DeJong et al, ; Tapajóz Pereira de Sampaio et al, ). Following a procedure similar to ours, a recent study has reported difficulties in children and adolescents with obesity in understanding others' mental states from eye gaze (Percinel, Ozbaran, Kose, Simsek, & Darcan, ), but data from adult population with obesity are lacking.…”

Social cognition and emotion regulation may be impaired in adolescents with obesity independent of the presence of binge eating disorder: a two-center study

“…Aloi et al [6] observed a comparable capability to recognize others' emotions but impaired ability in defining and analyzing their self emotions when compared with non-BED patients with obesity. Percinel et al [25] found that children with obesity had lower scores for all kinds of social cognition task compared with healthy controls. Our findings are partly consistent with the outcomes of other study results.…”

“…FPT tasks are considered as a good measurement tool of second-stage ToM impairments; in these tests it is stated that the skill of the person indicates the severity of the mental disorder. Good interrater reliability was demonstrated in a thesis study conducted in Turkey [25].…”

“…The UOT, developed by Dyck et al in 2001 [24], aims to determine the ability to relate to the causes of emotions and apply reasoning skills in order to explain the apparent conflict between the feelings and the feelings that were revealed during the situations. It was found that the UOT was internally consistent, combined with other emotion recognition and comprehension tests and general cognitive ability, and had good interrater reliability (r = 0.91), and at the same time the validity was shown [25]. Baron-Cohen et al [26] used tasks of the FPT to evaluate high mental references in addition to other social cognition tests.…”