Family environment influences emotion recognition following paediatric traumatic brain injury
2010, Vol. 24, No. 13-14 , Pages 1550-1560 (doi:10.3109/02699052.2010.523047)
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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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