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Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion: The Effects of Anxiety, Depression, and Fear of Negative Evaluation

Merchak, Rachel J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1398956266

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2013, Bachelor of Science, Wittenberg University, Psychology.
Anxiety is a debilitating disorder that can cause those suffering from it social dysfunction. This research focuses on how anxiety is associated with recognition of emotion on faces, as that may be a contributing factor to the social woes of those suffering from anxiety, both general and social. However, depression and fear of negative evaluation may also be associated with difficulty in recognizing emotions. In this study, 48 college students were presented with 60 facial expressions of emotion for either 500ms or 2s and asked to identify the emotion that was portrayed by choosing from a list of 6 possible choices: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, and sadness. Participants then completed measures of depressive and anxious (general and social) symptoms and fear of negative evaluation. Partial correlations were used to analyze the data. It was found that when depression and sex were controlled for, higher fear of negative evaluation and high social anxiety scores were correlated with better accuracy in identifying happy facial expressions. Additionally, higher general anxiety scores were marginally correlated with lower accuracy in identifying facial expressions of disgust. The correlations between general and social anxiety and recognition of expressions of disgust and happiness approached marginal significance or were marginally significant, respectively, when depression, fear of negative evaluation, and sex were controlled.
Stephanie Little, Dr. (Advisor)
Michael Anes, Dr. (Committee Member)
Jeff Ankrom, Dr. (Committee Member)
33 p.
Psychology
anxiety, depression, fear of negative evaluation, social anxiety, emotion recognition

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  • Merchak, R. J. (2013). Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion: The Effects of Anxiety, Depression, and Fear of Negative Evaluation [Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1398956266

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Merchak, Rachel. Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion: The Effects of Anxiety, Depression, and Fear of Negative Evaluation. 2013. Wittenberg University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1398956266.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Merchak, Rachel. "Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion: The Effects of Anxiety, Depression, and Fear of Negative Evaluation." Undergraduate thesis, Wittenberg University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1398956266

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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