Expressed emotionality has been defined in respect of family members with psychiatric disorders. However, people who face different behavioral and psychosocial problems may also have family members with high expressed emotionality. Are there any studies regarding that? And what about EE on a continuum of any illness like schizophrenia or bipolar ?
Are there any scales (studies) to assess Expressed Emotionality (EE) in healthy individuals, who may be at risk of developing a psychiatric disorder ?
Thank you Abdelfattah for the article. But I want to look into studies where expressed emotionality has been studied for people without any psychiatric disorder but only some behavioral or social aberrations. Like suppose a child is not showing good academic performance, so how expressed emotionality of parents is going to effect the mental health as well as difficulties in improvement of the child (in academic as well as non-academic spheres).
Most of the studies of expressed emotionality by family members has been studied in context of schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders. But what about non-psychiatric families? I want to look into literature for that.
Thank you.
I think it is difficult to distinguish between biological and environmental emotion e.g.) states. I have read that Kraepelin in the 1800s found something like 80% of manic depressives had relatives with the same disorder.
James, to answer your question briefly, the Expressed Emotion construct is specific to
health outcomes generally and psychiatric relapse in particular. Specifically, EE research studies the effect of a patient's close significant other's criticism, hostility, and emotional overinvolvement (think of it as helicopter parenting taken to the extreme) on, for example, psychiatric relapse in Schizophrenia or Bipolar disorder. EE measures nod
to positive emotional expression like warmth & praise but to nearly the same degree as negative expression.
Tarun, you raise an interesting question about the effects of
EE in more normative stressful family situations, but you may be the first to
Study it. Best of luck!
Dear Tarun,
some papers:
Article Relatives' responses to psychosis: An exploratory investigat...
Article Parental Expressed Emotion and Youth Psychopathology: New Di...
Article The impact of caregivers’ expressed emotion and the patients...
Article Expressed Emotion in relatives of persons with dementia: a s...
Article Expressed emotion and the escalation of depressive symptoms ...
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