Emotional Processes in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder
Assessing Emotional Processes in Adults With Intellectual Developmental Disorder Using the ACQUISS Battery
Hôpital le Vinatier
60 participants
Feb 19, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Emotions play a crucial part in the quality of life, interpersonal relationships and mental health in general. In adults presenting with intellectual developmental disorder (IDD), emotional abilities may be hindered, thus leading to more challenging behaviors. A better understanding of emotional processes of adults with IDD may help improve the efficiency of behavioral interventions and better improve their quality of life. The primary goal of this study is to better characterize the abilities and weaknesses of adults with IDD concerning their emotional processes, in comparison to a healthy population. The secondary goals are : * to determine if these difficulties are underlined by oculomotor and attention (auditory and visual) processes * to determine if behavioral difficulties, as reported by the families of adults with IDD, are underlined by specific difficulties in facial emotion recognition, emotion identification in context and/or identification of vocal emotions.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria12
- IDD group :
- Diagnosis of IDD according to DSM-V criteria
- aged between 18 and 3 years
- French speaking
- Membership or entitlement to a social security plan
- informed consent, or that of the tutor, to take part in the study
- presence of a caregiver to complete the questionnaires at V2.
- Control group :
- aged between 18 and 35 years
- French speaking
- Membership or entitlement to a social security plan
- Informed written consent to take part in the study.
Exclusion Criteria14
- IDD group :
- visual or auditory impairments, evaluated at V1
- non stabilized epilepsy
- undergoing treatments that can impact brain or psychological functioning
- major motor disorders
- breastfeeding or pregnant woman
- Control group :
- neurodevelopmental or psychiatric disorder
- history of brain trauma (TBI, stroke, etc…) or non-stabilized epilepsy
- visual or auditory impairments, evaluated at V1
- non stabilized epilepsy
- undergoing treatments that can impact brain or psychological functioning
- major motor disorders
- breastfeeding or pregnant woman
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Interventions
Task 1: 5 minute facial emotion recognition test to identify isolated facial expressions. 6 drawn faces, without gender bias, without hair, expressing the 6 universal emotions will be presented. The emotions are: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. Task 2 : identifying a character's emotion in a social context (20 min). The subject is presented with drawn social contexts, one character is always in orange, and the face is left blank. The subject then has to choose amongst 6 emotions (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust) which one would correspond the most to the emotion expressed by the character in orange. Task 3 : recognizing vocal emotions (15 min). The subject is presented with dialogues of 3 sentences. The 3 sentences are expressed with a vocal emotion (same emotion for the 3 sentences). The contents of the sentences are neutral At the end of each dialogue, the subject has to show which emotion was expressed.
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NCT07303270