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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 394-400, 2002
© 2002 Medical Council on Alcohol

IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS IN ALCOHOLISM

Charles Kornreich,*, Pierre Philippot1, Marie-Line Foisy, Sylvie Blairy, Emmanuel Raynaud2, Bernard Dan3, Ursula Hess4, Xavier Noël, Isy Pelc and Paul Verbanck

Department of Psychiatry, Free University of Brussels, Brugmann Hospital,
1 Department of Psychology, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve,
2 Department of Psychiatry, Le Domaine, Braine L'Alleud,
3 Department of Neurology, Free University of Brussels, Queen Fabiola Hospital, Belgium and
4 Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada

Received 22 October 2001; first review notified 21 January 2002; accepted 14 February 2002

— Aims: Emotional facial expression (EFE) recognition has been shown to be impaired in abstinent alcoholics. The present study investigated the relationship between EFE recognition impairments and interpersonal difficulties in recently detoxified alcoholics (RA). Methods: Thirty recently detoxified alcoholics were compared to 30 normal controls (NC) matched for age, sex and educational level on an EFE decoding test. This test involves 16 photographs depicting EFE of happiness, anger, disgust and sadness. Subjects were asked to fill in the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems evaluating six dimensions of interpersonal problems (assertiveness, submissiveness, intimacy, reliability, control and sociability). Results: RA had EFE recognition deficits and more interpersonal problems, compared to NC. Reported interpersonal difficulties were correlated with EFE decoding problems. Conclusions: Interpersonal difficulties serve as a mediator between EFE accuracy problems and alcoholism. Impaired EFE recognition could have a role in the interpersonal difficulties encountered by RA and may therefore constitute a relapse factor.


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