Attempting to find a new index of self-focused attention in social anxiety

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K13153
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Yasuda Women's University
• Principal Investigator: Fujihara Yuya 安田女子大学, 心理学部, 准教授 (20368822)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Onoda Keiichi 島根大学, 医学部, 講師 (60432712)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 社会不安 / 自己注目 / 他者注目 / NIRS / サポートベクターマシン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study aimed to investigate whether both self-consciousness and other-consciousness can be measured continuously based on the brain activity, and, if possible, to investigate the relevance between the direction of consciousness and physical anxious responses. We found support vector machine (SVM) for NIRS data measured during self/other reference task classified the self-/other-consciousness successfully. The classification of consciousness was confirmed even when participants were induced socially anxious mood. Then, we examined the association between the classification of consciousness during actual interaction and physical anxious responses (RR interval, SCR), and found the possibility that SCR increased subsequently to self-consciousness.

Free Research Field

認知臨床心理学