Self-feeling can be influenced by doing a particular (social) task, like giving a speech, low or high social anxiety, low and high self-esteem or fear of negative,- positive evaluation. This study...Show moreSelf-feeling can be influenced by doing a particular (social) task, like giving a speech, low or high social anxiety, low and high self-esteem or fear of negative,- positive evaluation. This study examined how the relation of a feedback mismatch between the participant and the judge after a social task (giving a speech), effects the self-feeling of the participant. In addition we examined if there is a direct effect of anxiety related measurements and self-esteem to self-feeling and if these measurements also moderate the relation between the feedback mismatch on self-feeling. Twenty participants (mean age is 20.60 years, 18 women) were tested in a self-speech paradigm, while EEG and ECG was measured. After giving the speech, participants rate their own performance and finally the participants received ratings from a judge. A multilevel analysis was employed to look for effects on self-feeling. Results provided significant evidence for the relation of feedback mismatch on self-feeling. Also direct significant effects for social anxiety (LSAS), self-esteem (RSES), fear of negative evaluation (BFNES) on self-feeling are found. Significant evidence was also found for moderating effects of social anxiety (LSAS) and fear of positive evaluation (FPES) on the relation of feedback mismatch on self-feeling. Together these findings confirm that feedback mismatch does effect self- feeling and that anxiety related measures (LSAS and FPES) show significant effect on the relation of feedback mismatch on self-feeling. The findings of this study demonstrate that long-term endurance of high scores on social anxiety, low(er) self-esteem and fear of negative evaluation can make people more vulnerable for developing social anxiety disorder (SAD) and further deteriorate social anxiety, self-esteem and self-feeling overall if not treated.Show less
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) can be a crippling disorder characterized by strong avoidance of social situations and encounters due to fear of judgment from others, leading to various social and...Show moreSocial anxiety disorder (SAD) can be a crippling disorder characterized by strong avoidance of social situations and encounters due to fear of judgment from others, leading to various social and interpersonal problems. Socially anxious individuals (SAI) often have cognitive biases that influence how they perceive social feedback from others and can perpetuate the disorder. How SAI learn from social feedback is important, as this can determine their self-view. The goal of this study is to investigate the influence of a specific cognitive bias in attention in socially anxious individuals (SAI) on social feedback learning. This study was conducted using a modified social judgment paradigm, designed to expose participants to positive and negative social feedback from 4 fictitious peers, who vary in their percentage of positive feedback. Participants will learn which peer gives the most and least feedback throughout the task. This will be conducted and measured using Electroencephalography (EEG). The results showed that SAI tend to orient their attention towards unexpected social feedback, regardless of valence. As well as this, SAIs tend to learn less from unexpected negative social feedback compared to lower SAI. Even though SAI payed more attention to unexpected social feedback, we propose that there might be an avoidance coping mechanism which influences the SAI to learn less from the unexpected negative social feedback.Show less
