Odnos socijalne anksioznosti, radnog pamćenja i kontrole pažnje

master's thesis

• Title (english): Relationship between social anxiety, working memory and attentional control
• Author: Ana Habdelić
• Mentor: Ivana Hromatko (mentor)
• Committee member: Željka Kamenov (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Jasmina Tomas (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Psychology); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-09-27, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Social Psychology

Abstract

Socijalna anksioznost odnosi se na strah od javnog govora, interakcija s nepoznatim ljudima, izražavanja vlastitog mišljenja na sastancima i drugih socijalnih situacija koje od pojedinca zahtijevaju socijalnu interakciju ili izvedbu. Ako su strahovi mnogobrojni, mogu značajno narušiti psihološku dobrobit i svakodnevno funkcioniranje. Socijalnu anksioznost obilježavaju emocionalni, fiziološki, bihevioralni i kognitivni simptomi. Mnoga istraživanja pokazuju da na razvoj i održavanje simptoma socijalne anksioznosti utječu procesi pažnje i izvršni procesi radnog pamćenja. U ovom radu istraživan je odnos razine socijalne anksioznosti i radnog pamćenja, pristranosti pažnje prema prijetnji te procesa kontrole pažnje: inhibicije, pomicanja i orijentacije pažnje. Sudionici su Liebowitzev upitnik socijalne anksioznosti rješavali online putem, a na kraju upitnika mogli su dati pristanak za sudjelovanjem u drugom dijelu istraživanja. Za drugi dio istraživanja odabrani su sudionici koji su na upitniku imali rezultat koji označava nisku (n=30) te visoku, odnosno generaliziranu socijalnu anksioznost (n=30). Eksperimentalni dio istraživanja sastojao se od individualnog rješavanja Testa antisakada, Testa mreža pažnje, Dot probe testa s emocionalnim izrazima lica te Wisconsin testa sortiranja karata na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Rezultati su pokazali da ne postoje statistički značajne razlike između skupina nisko i visoko na skali socijalne anksioznosti u mogućnostima inhibicije pažnje, pomicanja pažnje s jednog podražaja na drugi, orijentacije pažnje, pristranosti pažnje prema prijetnji te sposobnostima rješavanja problema. Dane su implikacije za buduća istraživanja.

Abstract (english)

Social anxiety refers to the fear of public speaking, interaction with strangers, expressing one's opinion at meetings and other social situations that require social interaction or performance from the individual. If the fears are numerous, they can significantly impair psychological well-being and daily functioning. Social anxiety is characterized by emotional, physiological, behavioral and cognitive symptoms.Many studies show that the development and maintenance of social anxiety symptoms are influenced by attention processes and executive processes of working memory. This study investigates the relationship between working memory, threat bias, attention control processes: inhibition, shifting and orientation of attention and social anxiety. Respondents completed the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale online. Two groups were formed based on their results (low vs. high social anxiety), and those participants who gave their consent participated in the second part of the study, which took place at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. It consisted of individualy solving the Antisaccade Test, the Attentional Network Task, the Dot Probe Test with emotional facial expressions, and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the group low (n=30) and high (n=30) on the social anxiety scale in threat-bias, problem-solving abilities, inhibition, shifting and orienting attention. Implications for future research are given.

• Keywords: socijalna anksioznost; radno pamćenje; kontrola pažnje; negativna pristranost pažnje; orijentacija pažnje
• Keywords (english): social anxiety; working memory; attention control; orienting attention; threat-bias
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:425435
• Study programme: Title: Psychology; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra psihologije (magistar/magistra psihologije)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-10-03 13:15:20