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Exploring the role of post-error processing in social anxiety across age
Olivia A Stibolt1,2, Fabian A Soto1,2, Jeremy W Pettit1,2
1Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Summary
Social anxiety impacts post-error attentional focusing differently in children versus adolescents. This study reveals age-related changes in how social anxiety affects error processing in youth.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychology
- Child Psychiatry
Background:
- Error monitoring, the ability to detect one's own mistakes, is linked to social anxiety.
- This link is inconsistent across age groups, with younger children showing diminished error monitoring and older children/adolescents showing heightened monitoring.
- Examining post-error processing offers insight into these age-related inconsistencies in childhood social anxiety.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between social anxiety and post-error processing, specifically attentional focusing.
- To explore how this relationship changes across different age groups in youth.
- To understand the developmental trajectory of social anxiety's impact on cognitive control after errors.
Main Methods:
- Utilized computational modeling to assess post-error attentional focusing during a flanker task.
- Analyzed data from 148 treatment-seeking youth aged 7-17.
- Measured social anxiety symptoms using the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) questionnaire.
Main Results:
- A significant three-way interaction was found between trial type, age, and social anxiety symptoms predicting attentional focusing.
- In younger children, higher social anxiety was associated with diminished post-error attentional focusing.
- This association weakened with age, becoming non-significant by adolescence.
Conclusions:
- Post-error processing provides crucial context for understanding the link between social anxiety and error monitoring.
- The study highlights significant developmental shifts in how social anxiety influences post-error processing.
- Findings can inform the development of age-tailored treatments for pediatric social anxiety.
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