Comparison of facial emotion recognition and self- conscious emotions shame and guilt between university students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and normal

Document Type : Original Article

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1 M.A in General Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani. Tabriz. Iran.

2 Associate professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University. Tabriz. Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: People with generalized anxiety disorder have defects in perception, regulating, and expressing their emotions. The purpose of this research was to determine the difference in facial emotion recognition and self- conscious emotions of shame and guilt between university students with generalized anxiety disorder and normal university students.

Method: This research was a causal-comparative design, with a statistical population of 400 students of the Shahid Madani University of Azarbaijan. A group of 20 people was selected as a group with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder based on the cut-off scores of the generalized anxiety disorder scale and the structured clinical interview for the diagnosis of mental disorders, and another group with the same number of normal people was selected. All subjects were examined in terms of scores in a selection of pictures of Ekman and Friesen (1976) facial emotion recognition test and Marshall et al.'s (1994) scale of shame and guilt.

Result: Multivariate analysis of variance method was used to analyze the data, which showed a significant difference between the two groups. Further, the results of the univariate analysis showed that there is no significant difference between the normal group and the group with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in facial emotion recognition. While there was a significant difference between the two groups in the self-conscious emotions of shame and guilt, and university students with symptoms obtained higher scores on this scale.

Discussion and conclusion: It is necessary to pay attention to people's conscious emotions of shame and guilt in the explanation and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder

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Clinical Psychology and Personality

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 11 November 2023

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