Abstract

GANTIVA, Carlos et al. Attention and motivation to affective stimuli in people with social anxiety. CES Psicol [online]. 2012, vol.5, n.2, pp.79-87. ISSN 2011-3080.

The purpose of this research was to identify differences in response time to an emotional stroop task in subjects with and without social anxiety. A comparative descriptive design was used in a sample of 63 participants, which were divided into two groups according to the scores on the FNE instrument. All of them were measured by three different Stroop type tasks: the traditional, the neutral and the emotional. It was found, significant differences in execution times in the Stroop type tasks, and the greatest executive time was presented by people with social anxiety. All differences were statistically relevant, although the emotional Stroop task got the highest significance. The results were analyzed from attentional and motivational processes.

Keywords : Atención; Motivación; Ansiedad Social; Stroop.

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