Empathy response to pain in depressive disorder: a pilot study
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1006-7884.2018.01.008
- VernacularTitle:抑郁症患者疼痛共情的初步研究
- Author:
Xue WANG
1
;
Chunlan CAI
;
Wen XIE
;
Shoucui XIA
;
Jianjun GUAN
;
Kai WANG
;
Zhu CAI
;
Lei ZHANG
Author Information
1. 安徽医科大学医学心理学系,合肥,230032
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Depressive disorder;
Pain;
Empathy
- From:
Chinese Journal of Psychiatry
2018;51(1):34-38
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the capability of empathy to pain under the explicit and implicit task in the depressed patients.Methods 37 patients with depression and 36 healthy controls matched for age,gender and education were recruited.Empathy to pain paradigm was used.Chinese Version of Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI-C) was used to measure empathy.Results (1)Patients showed lower scores in factors of perspective taking ((9.0±4.2) vs.(11.2±4.4)),fantasy ((12.9±4.6) vs.(15.7±3.8)) (t=-2.3,P＜0.01;t=-3.0,P＜0.05),higher scores in factors of personal distress((11.3±4.7) vs.(7.2±4.2)) (t=4.1,P＜0.01) in IRI-C.(2)In accurate rate,repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVAs) showed a significant effect for task(F(1,71)=61.82,P＜0.01),emotion (F(1,71)=65.79,P＜0.01),the interaction effect of the task and group was significant (F(1,71)=4.37,P＜0.05).In explicit task,emotion showed a significant effect (F(1.71) =28.25,P＜0.01),there was significant difference between two groups (F(1,71)=4.04,P＜0.05),furthermore,compared to the controls,the accuracy of painful pictures was significantly lower in patients (F(1,71) =4.07,P＜ 0.05),but not different in the accuracy of the neutral pictures (P＞0.05) by the one-way ANOVA.(3)In reaction time,repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVAs) showed a significant effect for task (F(1,71)=65.56,P＜0.01),emotion (F(1,71)=9.54,P＜0.05),and the interaction effect among the task,emotion and group was not significant (P＞0.05).Couclusion Depressed patients may have a declined capability of empathy toward other people's pain.
