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Emotion Recognition and Perceived Social Support in Young People Who Offend
Youth Justice ( IF 1.412 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-13 , DOI: 10.1177/1473225420931189
Maria Wilcox , Neil Frude , Liz Andrew

Young people who offend (YPwO) appear stuck in a cycle of adverse experiences, low social support and emotional skill deficits, yet their needs have not been extensively researched. The current study aimed to develop an understanding of alexithymia, the ability to recognise others’ emotions and perceived social support in YPwO and to explore the relationships between these variables. Fifty YPwO were recruited through three Youth Offending Teams and fifty age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status and academically-matched young people without a known offending history were recruited from a college and youth service in the same geographical area. All participants completed a demographic questionnaire, the Toronto Alexithymia scale, a Facial Emotion Recognition Task, a Verbal Emotional Prosody Recognition Task and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Statistical analyses failed to show that, relative to the control group, YPwO had higher levels of alexithymia, lower levels of perceived social support or lower ability to recognise others’ emotions. However, relative to the control group, YPwO did show significantly lower ability to recognise fear through verbal prosody. Of interest, children who had been ‘looked after’, rather than those with offending status in isolation, were found to show significant difficulties in identifying and describing feelings, ability to recognise others’ emotions and reported lower levels of perceived social support, particularly from family. In addition, significant correlations were found between i) alexithymia and perceived social support, ii) the ability to recognise others’ emotions and perceived social support, and iii) the ability to recognise emotions from facial expressions and the ability to recognise emotions through verbal prosody. The current study supports the view that offending behaviour is the result of a complex interplay of individual, developmental, and social factors. Theoretical and clinical implications of the study findings are discussed and potential areas for future research are suggested.

中文翻译:

青少年犯罪的情绪识别和感知到的社会支持

冒犯 (YPwO) 的年轻人似乎陷入了不利经历、低社会支持和情感技能缺陷的循环中,但他们的需求尚未得到广泛研究。目前的研究旨在了解述情障碍、识别他人情绪的能力和在 YPwO 中感知到的社会支持,并探索这些变量之间的关系。50 名 YPwO 是通过三个青少年犯罪团队招募的,并且从同一地理区域的大学和青年服务机构招募了 50 名年龄、性别、种族、社会经济地位和学业匹配且没有已知犯罪历史的年轻人。所有参与者都完成了人口调查问卷、多伦多述情障碍量表、面部情绪识别任务、言语情感韵律识别任务和感知社会支持的多维量表。统计分析未能表明,相对于对照组,YPwO 的述情障碍水平较高,感知社会支持水平较低或识别他人情绪的能力较低。然而,相对于对照组,YPwO 确实显示出显着较低的通过语言韵律识别恐惧的能力。有趣的是,被“照顾”的儿童,而不是那些孤立无援的儿童,在识别和描述感受、识别他人情绪的能力和报告的社会支持水平较低方面表现出明显的困难,特别是来自家庭。此外,在 i) 述情障碍和感知到的社会支持之间发现了显着的相关性,ii) 识别他人情绪和感知社会支持的能力,以及 iii) 从面部表情识别情绪的能力和通过语言韵律识别情绪的能力。目前的研究支持这样的观点,即冒犯行为是个人、发展和社会因素复杂相互作用的结果。讨论了研究结果的理论和临床意义,并建议了未来研究的潜在领域。
更新日期:2020-06-13
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