Interpersonal and intrapersonal emotional processes in individuals treated for alcohol use disorder and non-addicted healthy individuals.

CONCLUSIONS: After accounting for potentially confounding variables (demographics, severity of depression, anxiety symptoms) in MANCOVA models, patients with AUD presented deficits in identification and description of their own emotional states, as well as lower emotion regulation skills when compared to HCs. No between-group differences were observed in self-reported recognition of other people's emotions, social skills, and a behavioral measure of mental states recognition. Specific rather than general emotion-processing deficits in participants with AUD were identified, suggesting problems with processing of intrapersonal emotional signals. PMID: 29227790 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Addictive Behaviors - December 5, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Kopera M, Trucco EM, Jakubczyk A, Suszek H, Michalska A, Majewska A, Szejko N, Łoczewska A, Krasowska A, Klimkiewicz A, Brower KJ, Zucker RA, Wojnar M Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research