Aberrant cognitive empathy in individuals with elevated social anxiety and regulation with emotional working memory training.

IF 2.6 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL
Cognition & Emotion Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-13 DOI:10.1080/02699931.2024.2314981
Saif A Kade, Simone A du Toit, Craig T Danielson, Susanne Schweizer, Amanda S Morrison, Desmond C Ong, Ashni Prasad, Lauren J Holder, Jin Han, Michelle Torok, Quincy J J Wong
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Social anxiety may disrupt the empathic process, and well-regulated empathy is critical for navigating the social world. Two studies aimed to further understand empathy in the context of social anxiety. Study 1 compared individuals with elevated or normative social anxiety on a measure assessing cognitive and affective empathy for positive and negative emotions conveyed by other people ("targets"), completed under social threat. Relative to individuals with normative social anxiety, individuals with elevated social anxiety had greater cognitive empathy and no differences in affective empathy, regardless of emotion type. As greater cognitive empathy can be maladaptive, Study 2 tested whether this could be down-regulated. Individuals with elevated social anxiety underwent emotional working memory training (eWMT) for negative emotional information, or control training (CT). Effects on an empathy measure completed under social threat were assessed. Cognitive empathy for negative emotions decreased following eWMT but not CT, and this was only evident for those with higher pre-training working memory capacity. Cognitive empathy for positive emotions and affective empathy were not affected. Overall, social anxiety is associated with aberrant elevated cognitive empathy for negative and positive emotions, and the deviation in cognitive empathy for negative emotions can be regulated with eWMT for certain individuals.Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry identifier: ACTRN12618001196235..

社交焦虑症患者认知移情能力的异常以及情绪工作记忆训练的调节。
社交焦虑可能会扰乱移情过程,而调节良好的移情对于在社交世界中游刃有余至关重要。有两项研究旨在进一步了解社交焦虑背景下的移情。研究 1 比较了社交焦虑症患者和正常社交焦虑症患者在社交威胁下对他人("目标")传达的积极和消极情绪的认知和情感共情的评估。与社交焦虑正常的人相比,社交焦虑升高的人认知移情能力更强,而情感移情能力则没有差异,无论情感类型如何。由于认知移情能力较强可能会导致适应不良,研究 2 测试了认知移情能力是否会被下调。社交焦虑升高的人接受了针对负面情绪信息的情绪工作记忆训练(eWMT)或对照训练(CT)。评估了在社交威胁下完成的移情测量的效果。对负面情绪的认知移情能力在接受 eWMT 后有所下降,而对 CT 的认知移情能力则没有下降。对积极情绪的认知移情和情感移情则不受影响。总体而言,社交焦虑与消极和积极情绪认知移情的异常升高有关,而对于某些人来说,消极情绪认知移情的偏差可以通过eWMT来调节:试验注册:澳大利亚-新西兰临床试验注册中心(Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry)标识符:ACTRN12618001196235..
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Cognition & Emotion
Cognition & Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
CiteScore
4.90
自引率
7.70%
发文量
90
期刊介绍: Cognition & Emotion is devoted to the study of emotion, especially to those aspects of emotion related to cognitive processes. The journal aims to bring together work on emotion undertaken by researchers in cognitive, social, clinical, and developmental psychology, neuropsychology, and cognitive science. Examples of topics appropriate for the journal include the role of cognitive processes in emotion elicitation, regulation, and expression; the impact of emotion on attention, memory, learning, motivation, judgements, and decisions.
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