Social anxiety and memory biases in middle childhood : a preliminary study
Part of : Hellenic journal of psychology ; Vol.9, No.2, 2012, pages 114-131
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Studies on selective memory conducted with adult and child populations have provided mixed results and appear to suggest that controlling for comorbid depressive symptoms, including a high social-evaluative condition, and encouraging deep processing during the encoding might be crucial for demonstrating memory biases in anxiety. These issues were addressed in a preliminary study, which aimed at investigating selective memory in primary school students. Fifty seven high and low socially anxious children encoded positive and negative trait words in a public self-referent way. Half they were told they would soon have to give a social performance. Compared to low socially anxious children, high socially anxious children recalled less positive self-referent words. However, this effect did not interact with social threat manipulation. Results are discussed in the light of past research and informationprocessing theories of anxiety.
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social anxiety, shyness, memory, children, cognitive processes
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