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Rosner, Beth Ann.

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Empathy and personal distress in young people with Williams syndrome.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Empathy and personal distress in young people with Williams syndrome./
Author:	Rosner, Beth Ann.
Description:	103 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-11, Section: B, page: 5390.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-11B.
Subject:	Psychology, Clinical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3032190
ISBN:	0493448659

Empathy and personal distress in young people with Williams syndrome.
Rosner, Beth Ann.

Empathy and personal distress in young people with Williams syndrome. - 103 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-11, Section: B, page: 5390.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Boston, 2001.

This work aims to clarify the role of empathy in the Williams syndrome behavioral phenotype and distinguish between emotional reactions of empathy and personal distress. Subjects were 49 adolescents and young adults with mild to moderate mental retardation who were divided into two groups: those diagnosed with Williams syndrome (n = 36) and those diagnosed with nonspecific or other causes of mental retardation (n = 13). The experimenter spontaneously enacted emotion displays during the testing session and videotaped subject responses. Subject behaviors and verbalizations were coded according to indices of empathy, personal distress, and helping behavior. Subjects were also administered a series of tasks to measure aspects of language and cognition. Parents completed standardized measures of personality and maladaptive behavior, as well as a questionnaire about their child's expected reactions to negative emotions. As hypothesized, subjects with Williams syndrome showed more empathic verbalizations and behaviors than subjects in the comparison group, and they scored higher on measures of facial recognition and emotion recognition in voices. Also, as expected, Williams syndrome subjects were rated by parents as more anxious than subjects in the comparison group, although they did not show more behaviors reflecting personal distress during the emotion displays. Finally, within the Williams syndrome group, there was a modest relationship between motivation for social contact and empathic verbalizations. While anxiety was also found to modestly relate to empathic verbalizations, the direction of relationship was not the one predicted. Specifically, students with high anxiety ratings were least likely to respond with empathy during emotion displays. Implications for young people with Williams syndrome and suggestions for future research are discussed.

ISBN: 0493448659Subjects--Topical Terms:

524864
Psychology, Clinical.

Empathy and personal distress in young people with Williams syndrome.
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