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KMID : 0894920130130020001
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Journal of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism
2013 Volume.13 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.14
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The Comprehension of Emotional Contexts in Children with Asperger’s disorder
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Oh Eun-Sil
Hwang Min-A
Lim Jong-Ah
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Abstract
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In the present study, we investigated the defect of comprehension emotional contexts in children with Asperger’s disorder depending on emotional dimensions(basic emotion/complex mental states) and contextual types(situation/desire/false belief). Ten children with Asperger’s disorder(AD) and the same number of typically developing children(age, IQ and language-matched; TD) participated in this study. All Twenty children were second to third graders in elementary schools. For the emotional context task, the children listened to lists of a short story which included emotion of a character. And then, the children were asked to choose a word the most appropriate emotional state of character. A three-way ANOVA of group(2) x emotional dimension(2) x contextual type(3) revealed significant main effects of group, emotional dimension and contextual type. And significant interaction effects of group, emotional dimension and contextual type. The total number of correct responses was significantly lower in children with AD relative to TD, but understanding basic emotional dimension. Though it was a basic emotion task, however, AD had difficulty in grasping emotional clues of false belief context. These results suggested that complex mental states and contextual types will be worth consideration when evaluating and intervening social communication and pragmatics of children with Asperger’s disorder.
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KEYWORD
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children with asperger disorder, situation, diseire, false belief, basic emotion, complex mental states
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