Prediction of Defect in Theory of Mind According to Social and Generalized Anxiety Signs

Fatemeh Koroghipour, Zeynab Khanjani, Abbas Bakhshipour, Mohsen Soruri

Abstract


The present study has been conducted to predict the defects of theory of mind according to social and generalized anxiety signs among university students. The study was in a kind of descriptive –correlative one, sampling method was random having screening procedure. Population included female students of Tabriz University. Among them 30 had signs of social anxiety and other 30 participants had generalized anxiety. Data gathering tools were SPIN social anxiety questionnaire and Beck anxiety questionnaire (BAI). Obtained results showed that out of two mentioned variants, social anxiety was more able to predict mind theory defect while it was not true about generalized anxiety. Therefore according to social anxiety signs among individuals, we can predict defects in mind theory.

Full Text:

PDF 187-193

References


Adolphs, Ralph. (2001). The neurobiology of social cognition. Current opinion in neurobiology, 11(2), 231-239.

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. BMC Med, 17, 133-137.

Baron-Cohen, Simon. (1997). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind: MIT press.

Barr, Rachel. (2006). Developing social understanding in a social context. Blackwell handbook of early childhood development, 188-207. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470757703.ch10

Blair, R James R. (2001). Neurocognitive models of aggression, the antisocial personality disorders, and psychopathy. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 71(6), 727-731.

Bodden, Maren Elisabeth, Dodel, Richard, & Kalbe, Elke. (2010). Theory of mind in Parkinson's disease and related basal ganglia disorders: a systematic review. Movement Disorders, 25(1), 13-27.

Brothers, Leslie. (1990). The social brain: a project for integrating primate behaviour and neurophysiology in a new domain. Concepts neurosci, 1, 27-51.

Bukatko, Danuta, & Daehler, Marvin W. (2012). Child development: A thematic approach: Nelson Education.

Connor, Kathryn M, Kobak, Kenneth A, Churchill, L Erik, Katzelnick, David, & Davidson, Jonathan RT. (2001). Miniâ€SPIN: A brief screening assessment for generalized social anxiety disorder. Depression and anxiety, 14(2), 137-140.

Damon, William, & Hart, Daniel. (1992). Self-understanding and its role in social and moral development Developmental psychology: An advanced textbook, 3rd ed. (pp. 421-464). Hillsdale, NJ, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Doherty, Martin. (2008). Theory of mind: How children understand others' thoughts and feelings: Psychology Press.

Fisher, Louis. (2007). Constitutional conflicts between Congress and the president: Univ Pr of Kansas.

Flavell, John H. (1994). Cognitive development: Past, present, and future. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association.

Gallagher, Helen L, & Frith, Christopher D. (2003). Functional imaging of ‘theory of mind’. Trends in cognitive sciences, 7(2), 77-83.

Goldin, Philippe R, Jazaieri, Hooria, & Gross, James J. (2014). Emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder Social Anxiety (pp. 511-529): Elsevier.

Hezel, Dianne M, & McNally, Richard J. (2014). Theory of mind impairments in social anxiety disorder. Behavior therapy, 45(4), 530-540.

Jenkins, Jennifer M, & Astington, Janet Wilde. (2000). Theory of mind and social behavior: Causal models tested in a longitudinal study. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (1982-), 46(2): 203-220.

Katzman, Martin A. (2009). Current considerations in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. CNS drugs, 23(2), 103-120.

Mehl, Stephanie, Rief, Winfried, Mink, Katharina, Lüllmann, Eva, & Lincoln, Tania Marie. (2010). Social performance is more closely associated with theory of mind and autobiographical memory than with psychopathological symptoms in clinically stable patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Psychiatry research, 178(2), 276-283.

Mennin, Douglas S, Heimberg, Richard G, Turk, Cynthia L, & Fresco, David M. (2005). Preliminary evidence for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder. Behaviour research and therapy, 43(10), 1281-1310.

Morrison, Jason Malcolm. (2010). Empathy and theory of mind in schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. (Unpublished Master of Science dissertation), McGill University.

Vogeley, Kai, Bussfeld, Patrick, Newen, Albert, Herrmann, Sylvie, Happé, Francesca, Falkai, Peter, . . . Zilles, Karl. (2001). Mind reading: neural mechanisms of theory of mind and self-perspective. Neuroimage, 14(1), 170-181.

Washburn, Dustin. (2012). Theory of mind decoding and reasoning abilities in depression, social phobia, and comorbid conditions. ( Master's Thesis), Queen's University, Kingston, Outraise, Canada.

Wolkenstein, Larissa, Schönenberg, Michael, Schirm, Evelyne, & Hautzinger, Martin. (2011). I can see what you feel, but I can't deal with it: Impaired theory of mind in depression. Journal of affective disorders, 132(1-2), 104-111.

Zimmer, Carl. (2003). How the mind reads other minds: American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

World of Researches Publication