Expressed emotion (EE) is especially relevant in the Indian cultural context, where patients have longer and more enduring contact with family members, who play an important role as caregivers during the process of treatment & rehabilitation. A cross sectional case control study was carried out to study the relationship between EE and relapse of alcohol use. Participants included 60 participant...

Evidence suggests that expressed emotions (EEs) play a critical role in relapse in schizophrenia and adversely affect the long-term course of the disorder. In this paper we describe a method which is suitable for the objective assessment of EEs and associated psychopathological symptoms during direct family interactions. The patients and one of their family members participated in a 20-min inte...

This study integrated two views on parents’ narratives regarding their child, the psychiatric model of expressed emotion (EE) and the attachment model of narrative coherence (NC), to examine common and unique associations of maternal EE and NC with preschoolers’ behavior problems across families from varied ethnicities. The five minute speech samples (FMSSs) of 212 Hispanic (59.9 %), Black (18....

Across development, maternal depression has been found to be a risk factor for youth psychopathology generally and youth depression specifically. Maternal Expressed Emotion (EE) has been examined as a predictor of outcome among youth with depression. The present study explored the associations between youth psychopathology and two predictors-maternal depression within the child's lifetime and m...

Family environmental variables are risk factors for recurrent courses of mood disorder in adolescents. The present study examined the association between parental expressed emotion (EE)-critical, hostile and/or emotionally overinvolved attitudes toward a concurrently ill offspring-and suicidal ideation in adolescents with bipolar disorder. The sample consisted of 95 adolescents with a bipolar I...

Many studies have shown the beneficial effect of positive emotions on various cognitive processes, such as creativity and cognitive flexibility. Cheerfulness, understood as an affective predisposition to sense of humor, has been associated with positive emotions. So far, however, no studies have shown the relevance of this dimension in cognitive flexibility processes. The aim of this research w...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between emotion dysregulation and the core features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which include social/communication deficits, restricted/repetitive behaviors, and sensory abnormalities. An 18-item Emotion Dysregulation Index was developed on the basis of expert ratings of the Child Behavior Checklist. Compared to typically developing c...

PARENT ADHERENCE TO PSYCHOLOGIST RECOMMENDATIONS:THE ROLE OF EXPRESSED EMOTION ABOUT CHILD AND REACTION TODIAGNOSISby LESLEY HETTERSCHEIDTAugust 2011Advisor: Dr. Douglas BarnettMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Doctor of Philosophy For the majority of children with significant behavioral or academic problems atschool, the first course of action is to partic...

The present study evaluated the role of expressed emotion (EE) as a predictor of child symptomatology and functional impairment in a sample of nearly 800 adolescent children of mothers with varying histories of depression or who were nondepressed. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized associations in half of the sample, and all models were cross-validated on the other h...

This paper investigates whether specific non-verbal behavioral variables may enable to distinguish between performing an action alone or jointly in a group. We consider the test case of a first violinist in a string quartet. Starting from the observation of audio-video recordings, non-expert participants were instructed to report whether they reckoned the performance being a solo or an ensemble...