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Multicenter Study
. 2010;24(13-14):1550-60.
doi: 10.3109/02699052.2010.523047.

Family environment influences emotion recognition following paediatric traumatic brain injury

Adam T Schmidt  1 , Kimberley D Orsten, Gerri R Hanten, Xiaoqi Li, Harvey S Levin
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Multicenter Study

Family environment influences emotion recognition following paediatric traumatic brain injury

Adam T Schmidt et al. Brain Inj. 2010.

Abstract

Objective: This study investigated the relationship between family functioning and performance on two tasks of emotion recognition (emotional prosody and face emotion recognition) and a cognitive control procedure (the Flanker task) following paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) or orthopaedic injury (OI).

Methods: A total of 142 children (75 TBI, 67 OI) were assessed on three occasions: baseline, 3 months and 1 year post-injury on the two emotion recognition tasks and the Flanker task. Caregivers also completed the Life Stressors and Resources Scale (LISRES) on each occasion. Growth curve analysis was used to analyse the data.

Results: Results indicated that family functioning influenced performance on the emotional prosody and Flanker tasks but not on the face emotion recognition task. Findings on both the emotional prosody and Flanker tasks were generally similar across groups. However, financial resources emerged as significantly related to emotional prosody performance in the TBI group only (p = 0.0123).

Conclusions: Findings suggest family functioning variables--especially financial resources--can influence performance on an emotional processing task following TBI in children.

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Declaration of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
The relationship between Financial Resource raw scores and the total number of correct responses on the Emotional Prosody task was moderated by the type of injury to the participant. Orthopaedic control participants were not significantly affected by family resources, whereas those participants with TBI showed more improvement in task performance as family resources improved.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The relationship between Financial Stressor raw scores and the total number of correct responses on the Emotional Prosody task was moderated by age. Age categories are shown as standard deviations from the mean, with a positive deviation (i.e. older age) resulting in a much weaker negative relationship between financial stress and task performance.
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