Advances in social cognition of obsessive-compulsive disorder
10.3760/cma.j.cn371468-20220825-00484
- VernacularTitle:强迫障碍患者社会认知领域研究进展
- Author:
Jiayuan WANG
1
;
Xiaohua HU
Author Information
1. 华中科技大学同济医学院附属武汉精神卫生中心，武汉 430012
- Keywords:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder;
Social cognition;
Facial emotion recognition;
Empathy;
Alexithymia;
Emotional reaction;
Emotion regulation;
Theory of mind;
Att
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2023;32(3):283-288
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The main clinical features of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are obsessions and/or compulsions. Due to its symptoms are heterogeneous and have a wide range of influences, OCD usually causes different degrees of damage to patients' social functions. Social cognition is the process of perceiving and judging the psychology and behavior of others or oneself. Its core is to understand the information processing process and the underlying mechanism of social psychological phenomena. Studies have shown that social cognitive deficits can affect an individual's social function. Therefore, many scholars believe that the social cognitive function of OCD patients are impaired. Through collecting and sorting out relevant literature, we find that OCD patients can’t perceive social cues accurately, and they have trouble recognizing their own emotions and those of others. In general, they are not prone to emotional response, that is, their ability of emotional experience is impaired, while because of their own emotional regulation dysfunction, they overreact to special events that can induce the obsession and/or compulsion.The patients have poor insight into the mental states of others.The researches on attributions of life events are dificient, so their characteristics of attribution styles are not yet clear.These findings provide a preliminary theoretical basis and reference for the specificity of social cognitive impairment in patients with OCD and for guiding clinical effective and precise intervention.
