TY - JOUR
KW - 2360:Motivation & Emotion
KW - Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
KW - Emotion Recognition
KW - Emotional States
KW - Empirical Study
KW - Enthusiasm
KW - Facial Expressions
KW - Human
KW - Major Depression
KW - Middle Age (40-64 yrs)
KW - Quantitative Study
KW - article
KW - enthusiasm
KW - facial expression
KW - moods
KW - subclinical depression
AU - José Miguel Latorre Postigo
AU - Beatriz Navarro Bravo
AU - Juan Pedro Serrano Selva
AU - Laura Ros Segura
AU - María José Aguilar Córcoles
AU - Marta Nieto López
AU - Jorge Javier Ricarte Trives
AB - Facial emotion recognition plays an important role in human communication and social interaction. This study aims to analyze the possibility of detecting depressive symptoms through facial recognition of emotions and if this possibility is similar in young and elderly people. Two groups of participants were assessed, one with subclinical symptoms of depression, and the control group. The MSCEIT facial emotion recognition task was administered to both groups The main result is that there is an association between the recognition of a positive emotion in a neutral face and the level of depressive symptomatology, especially for people over 60 years old This result is consistent with the mood congruent effect  participants with few depressive symptoms evaluate a neutral face in a more positive way, at least in terms of enthusiasm. In summary, this preliminary study provides data on how facial emotion recognition could be an indicator of subclinical depression, especially in the elderly.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - Facial emotion recognition plays an important role in human communication and social interaction. This study aims to analyze the possibility of detecting depressive symptoms through facial recognition of emotions and if this possibility is similar in young and elderly people. Two groups of participants were assessed, one with subclinical symptoms of depression, and the control group. The MSCEIT facial emotion recognition task was administered to both groups The main result is that there is an association between the recognition of a positive emotion in a neutral face and the level of depressive symptomatology, especially for people over 60 years old This result is consistent with the mood congruent effect  participants with few depressive symptoms evaluate a neutral face in a more positive way, at least in terms of enthusiasm. In summary, this preliminary study provides data on how facial emotion recognition could be an indicator of subclinical depression, especially in the elderly.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2013
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 211
EP - 222
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Emotion recognition in faces as an indicator of subclinical depression in young and elderly people: A preliminary study
VL - 19
ER -