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Different Social Anxiety Levels The Psychological And Physiological Responses Of Adults Watching Different Types Of Laughter Videos

Posted on:2019-07-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2355330548957666Subject:Applied Psychology
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Laughters express strong signals of social acceptance or refusal.Individuals with social anxiety suffer physiological symptoms such as blush,sweat and trembling due to fears and ineluctability of social occasions.When individuals with social anxiety are stimulated by laughters of others with strong signals,they will over explain or misunderstand the laughters because of deviated explanation.The paper uses the form of video and biofeedback appliance to explore the responses of SA individuals faced with different types of laughter.In this study,this paper uses SIAS,PhoPhiKat,IUS,BFNE,SADOS scales to investigate 98 adult college students,and applies Pearson correlation analysis,repeated measurement analysis,regression analysis to explore the difference between emotional experience intensity and autonomic nervous reaction of adults suffering from SA when faced with different types of laughter.The results show that: first,high social anxiety participants negative emotional experience is significantly stronger than low social anxiety participants during ridicule films;second,high social anxiety participants EDA is significantly lower than low social anxiety participants during natural laughter films.Third,the reason why different SAD have different emotional experience and physiological response when faced different types of laughter is they were afraid of laughter,intolerance of uncertainty and afraid of negative evaluation.This study enriches the theory of social anxiety interpretation bias.We uses video to explore how social anxiety individuals react to different laughter.The induced emotion and autonomic nervous response were more obvious.
Keywords/Search Tags:social anxiety, laughter, emotional experience intensity, autonomic nervous responses, potential mechanism
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