Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task

Anxiety disorders cause mental distress and low wellbeing in many people worldwide. Theories of anxiety describe negative worldviews and self-views as maintaining factors of the disorders. Recent research in social cognition has found a link between depression and altered perceptual biases to emotio...

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Autores principales:	Michella Feldborg, Naomi A. Lee, Kalai Hung, Kaiping Peng, Jie Sui
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	anxiety mental health self-prioritisation effect positivity bias Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:659d224775e84383972e0f498ce97f482021-11-25T17:51:05ZPerceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task10.3390/ijerph1822120961660-46011661-7827https://doaj.org/article/659d224775e84383972e0f498ce97f482021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/22/12096https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601Anxiety disorders cause mental distress and low wellbeing in many people worldwide. Theories of anxiety describe negative worldviews and self-views as maintaining factors of the disorders. Recent research in social cognition has found a link between depression and altered perceptual biases to emotions, but the same research on anxiety is still missing. In this study, we measured perceptual biases to emotional and self-related stimuli in sub-clinically anxious participants and healthy controls using a self-emotional shape-label matching task. Results demonstrate that anxious participants had a diminished perceptual self-bias compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, the severity of anxiety was related to an emotional bias towards valanced other-related stimuli. The findings confirm the hypothesis that anxious individuals display an altered self-prioritisation effect in comparison with healthy individuals and that anxiety severity is linked to altered responses to emotionally valanced others. These findings have potential implications for early diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders.Michella FeldborgNaomi A. LeeKalai HungKaiping PengJie SuiMDPI AGarticleanxietymental healthself-prioritisation effectpositivity biasMedicineRENInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 12096, p 12096 (2021)
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spellingShingle	anxiety mental health self-prioritisation effect positivity bias Medicine R Michella Feldborg Naomi A. Lee Kalai Hung Kaiping Peng Jie Sui Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task
description	Anxiety disorders cause mental distress and low wellbeing in many people worldwide. Theories of anxiety describe negative worldviews and self-views as maintaining factors of the disorders. Recent research in social cognition has found a link between depression and altered perceptual biases to emotions, but the same research on anxiety is still missing. In this study, we measured perceptual biases to emotional and self-related stimuli in sub-clinically anxious participants and healthy controls using a self-emotional shape-label matching task. Results demonstrate that anxious participants had a diminished perceptual self-bias compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, the severity of anxiety was related to an emotional bias towards valanced other-related stimuli. The findings confirm the hypothesis that anxious individuals display an altered self-prioritisation effect in comparison with healthy individuals and that anxiety severity is linked to altered responses to emotionally valanced others. These findings have potential implications for early diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders.
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title	Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task
title_short	Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task
title_full	Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task
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Perceiving the Self and Emotions with an Anxious Mind: Evidence from an Implicit Perceptual Task

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