Abstract
Emotion recognition is very important for social interaction. Several mental disorders influence facial emotion recognition. War veterans and their offspring are subject to an increased risk of developing psychopathology. Emotion recognition is an important aspect that needs to be addressed in this population. To our knowledge, no test exists that is validated for use with war veterans and their offspring. The current study aimed to validate the JACFEE photo set to study facial emotion recognition in war veterans and their offspring. The JACFEE photo set was presented to 135 participants, comprised of 62 male war veterans and 73 war veterans’ offspring. The participants identified the facial emotion presented from amongst the possible seven emotions that were tested for: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. A loglinear model was used to evaluate whether the agreement between the intended and the chosen emotions was higher than the expected. Overall agreement between chosen and intended emotions was 76.3% (Cohen kappa = 0.72). The agreement ranged from 63% (sadness expressions) to 91% (happiness expressions). The reliability by emotion ranged from 0.617 to 0.843 and the overall JACFEE photo set Cronbach alpha was 0.911. The offspring showed higher agreement when compared with the veterans (RR: 41.52 vs 12.12, p < 0.001), which confirms the construct validity of the test. The JACFEE set of photos showed good validity and reliability indices, which makes it an adequate instrument for researching emotion recognition ability in the study sample of war veterans and their respective offspring.
Highlights
We show that the Japanese and Caucasian Facial Expressions of Emotion (JACFEE) set of photos has good validity and reliability indices in the study sample of war veterans and their respective offspring
The reliability by emotion ranged from 0.617 to 0.843 (See Table 4), and the overall reliability for the JACFEE photo set between images was 0.911
The overall agreement between chosen and intended emotions was 76.3%, which is comparable to the multicultural agreement percentages found with this set of photos, which vary between 76.1% and 86.6% [5]
Summary
They exist because we need to recognize and respond to significant events that are related to survival and/or the maintenance of well-being, and . Emotions are common to other animals, vertebrates [2]. They are brought about by stimulus presentation, being comprised of such processes as arousal, appraisal, production of an affective state, as well as behavior and respective regulation [3]. Basic emotions can be distinguished from each another and are the result of evolution developing the best way to deal with fundamental life tasks [4]. The theme of an emotion is influenced phylogenetically and variations to that theme are influenced in turn by social experience [4]
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