Key result
Greater social anxiety symptoms in women were associated with higher emotion recognition accuracy (p=0.021), lower intensity ratings for positive stimuli (p=0.032), and lower task HRV (p=0.026).
Why the study?
Parasympathetic activity influences responses to the social environment and may underlie perceptual biases in social anxiety disorder.
Cross-Sectional (n=124)
p-value: p=0.021
Lower task HRV mediates the relationship between greater social anxiety symptoms and both lower positivity bias and greater emotion recognition accuracy in women.
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No immediate clinical implications for social anxiety assessment; leaves open HRV mediation of emotion biases in women.
Madison et al. (2020) conducted a cross-sectional in Social anxiety symptoms (n=124). Social anxiety symptoms was evaluated on Emotion recognition accuracy (p=0.021). Greater social anxiety symptoms in women were associated with higher emotion recognition accuracy (p=0.021), lower intensity ratings for positive stimuli (p=0.032), and lower task HRV (p=0.026).
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