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Emotion processing and social functioning in euthymic bipolar disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A. Aparicio ,
E.M. Sánchez-Morla ,
J.L. Santos  and
J. Mateo
A. Aparicio*
Affiliation:
University of Castilla La Mancha, School of Nursery, Cuenca, Spain
E.M. Sánchez-Morla
Affiliation:
University of Alcalá, Shool of Medicine, Psychiatry, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
J.L. Santos
Affiliation:
Hospital Virgen de La Luz, Psychiatry, Cuenca, Spain
J. Mateo
Affiliation:
University of Castilla La Mancha, Innovation in Bioengineering, Cuenca, Spain
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

A large number of studies have found that patients with bipolar disorders have a poor performance in tasks assessing social cognition.

Objectives and aims

The present study aimed to investigate whether euthymic bipolar patients (EBP) have a dysfunction in emotion processing when compared to controls. An additional objective was to determine whether there is association between emotion processing and psychosocial functioning.

Methods

A sample of 53 EBP and 53 healthy controls matched for age, gender, education level and premorbid intelligence were studied. All subjects were assessed using the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) and two additional executive function measures: the Trail Making Test–Part B and the Stroop Test. Emotion processing was examined using the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Psychosocial functioning was assessed using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale and the Functional Assessment Short Test (FAST).

Results

For the MSCEIT, EBP obtained lower total scores (P = 0.001), experiential area scores (P = 0.012), strategic area scores (P = 0.000), perceiving emotions branch scores (P = 0.008), understanding emotions branch scores (P = 0.014) and managing emotions branch scores (P = 0.000) than controls. There were no significant differences between groups for the using emotions branch (P = 0.113). In addition, partial correlations controlling for sub-clinical psychopathology in EBP showed the existence of a significant correlation of MSCEIT total score and MSCEIT strategic area score with FAST total score.

Conclusions

EBP exhibit deficits in several areas of emotion processing. Performance in emotion processing tasks is associated with social functioning in these patients.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EW51
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S125 - S126
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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