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INFLUENCE OF AGE AND ANXIETY ON EMOTION PROCESSING 1
Influence of Age and Anxiety on Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion:
Exploring the Role of Attentional Processes
By
Sarah Rastegar
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements of the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
Bob G. Knight, Ph.D., Committee Chair
Margaret Gatz, Ph.D., Committee Member
Mara Mather, Ph.D., Committee Member
December 2012
Object Description
| Title | Influence of age and anxiety on recognition of facial expressions of emotion: exploring the role of attentional processes |
| Author | Rastegar, Sarah |
| Author email | sarah.rastegar@gmail.com;sarah.rastegar@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-10-30 |
| Date submitted | 2012-11-28 |
| Date approved | 2012-11-28 |
| Restricted until | 2012-11-28 |
| Date published | 2012-11-28 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Knight, Bob G. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gatz, Margaret Mather, Mara |
| Abstract | Prior laboratory research suggests that older adults are less accurate than younger groups in identifying facial expressions of certain negative emotions. However, the ability to recognize positive expressions appears to be preserved with age. The reasons for this variability are as yet undetermined. Anxiety, via concurrent attentional and interpretive biases, may play an important role in age differences in the recognition of facial expression by valence, in light of research that suggests anxiety increases accuracy and intensity appraisal of emotional faces, particularly those that are threat-relevant (i.e. anger and fear). The current project used an experimental mood induction paradigm in order to examine the effects of anxious mood, trait anxiety, and attentional control on accuracy and subjective intensity ratings in a facial expression recognition task across younger and older individuals. Results indicated that older adults with concurrent state and trait anxiety demonstrated mood-congruent facial processing, with higher accuracy and intensity ratings for certain threat-relevant faces; high trait and state anxious younger adults demonstrated the opposite pattern. Attentional control ability moderated threat relevant facial processing, with lower attentional control resulting in an increased ability to accurately identify fear faces among older adults as well as in higher intensity ratings for threat relevant faces among those who were state anxious. Anxiety and attentional control appeared to be more closely related in older than younger adults. Our results suggest that anxiety and accompanying mood-congruent biases may help to explain past research that has found age differences in the ability to identify certain negative facial expressions. |
| Keyword | aging and emotion recognition |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Rastegar, Sarah |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume6/etd-RastegarSa-1358.pdf |
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| Full text | INFLUENCE OF AGE AND ANXIETY ON EMOTION PROCESSING 1 Influence of Age and Anxiety on Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion: Exploring the Role of Attentional Processes By Sarah Rastegar A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) Bob G. Knight, Ph.D., Committee Chair Margaret Gatz, Ph.D., Committee Member Mara Mather, Ph.D., Committee Member December 2012 |
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