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KMID : 1143820140100010037
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Anxiety and Mood
2014 Volume.10 No. 1 p.37 ~ p.43
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Behavioral Characteristics of Face Recognition for Self and Others in Patients with Social Phobia
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Sohn In-Jung
Yoon Hyung-Jun
Shin Yu-Bin
Kim Jae-Jin
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Abstract
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Objective : Social Phobia is associated with extensive disability and reduced quality of life. The concept of ‘social self’ is a representation of the self-reflected in the eyes of others, and is recruited during self-face recognition, which is closely related to self-esteem. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship of face recognition for self and others using measures of social anxiety and self-esteem in patients with social phobia.
Methods : Twent y-seven patients with social phobia and twenty-three normal controls were evaluated with scales of self-esteem, depression, anxiety and other psychiatric symptoms. All participants completed the self-face recognition task. Nine self-faces, nine other faces and eighty-one morphed faces were presented randomly for each trial. The participants were instructed to make a decision as to whether the stimuli were self-face or not. The responses and reaction times were recorded during the task.
Results : There were no group differences of the morphing composition at the recognition start point as self-face. In patients with social phobia, the mean reaction time at the start point of recognizing as a self-face was 1,037.6 ms, which was significantly longer than that of normal controls (911.3 ms, p＜0.05). Patients with social phobia showed a significant negative correlation between the mean reaction time and the severity of depression when the stimuli were recognized as a self-face (r=-0.421, p＜0.05).
Conclusion : A difficulty in attention rather than avoidance may be an important factor of face recognition in patients with social phobia. When considering self-face recognition in such patients, many factors, such as anxiety, depression, working memory and theory of mind, need to be considered.
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KEYWORD
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Social phobia, Face recognition, Self-face, Self-esteem
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