Self-awareness buffers the consequences of negative feedback: Evidence from an ERP study

Xu, Min; Liu, Bu; Gu, Ruolei; Yang, Shiming; Wang, Hongbo; Zhu, Xinhua

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.02.004

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“…The continuous EEG data were recorded using 63 electrodes on an elastic cap (Brain Products) with electrodes placed according to the 10/20 system. The vertical and horizontal electrooculograms were collected from facial electrodes placed 1 cm above the left eye and outside the right eye, respectively (Xu et al, 2021). Electrode FCz served as the online recording reference.…”

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Heightened neural reward responsiveness functions as a plasticity factor moderating the association between childhood emotional abuse and young adult depressive symptoms: Evidence of differential susceptibility.

Yang,

Xu,

Cao

2024

Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science

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As a neural indicator of reward responsiveness (RR), reward positivity (RewP) has been demonstrated to moderate the association between stress exposure and depressive symptoms. However, extant research has primarily (a) focused on life stress rather than early maltreatment, (b) ignored the time-frequency components, and (c) has been based on a traditional perspective of diathesis stress. The present study aimed to comprehensively examine whether and how neurophysiological (RewP and its time-frequency decomposition components) and self-reported measures of RR interact with childhood emotional abuse on young adult depressive symptoms. The sample of 192 Chinese university students aged 18-25 (M age = 21.08 + 1.91 years; 59.4% girls) completed self-reported questionnaires of emotional abuse, depressive symptoms and RR. The RewP and its time-frequency components delta and theta were elicited via a monetary reward task. The results demonstrated that RewP significantly moderated the association between emotional abuse and young adult depressive symptoms in a differential susceptibility but not diathesis-stress manner. However, gain-related delta, loss-related theta, or self-reported RR did not drive such moderation effects. These findings were robust and survived a series of rigorous sensitivity analyses. The current findings provide preliminary evidence that heightened RewP may function as a plasticity factor moderating the association between early maltreatment exposure and depression, and highlight the effect specific to emotional abuse. However, caution should be paid to the generalizability of these findings in high-risk clinical samples, in light of the current highfunctioning sample features and low rates of high symptom and abuse levels. General Scientific SummaryReward positivity (RewP) has been identified as a reliable neuromarker of reward responsiveness and plays a key role in the pathology of depression. This study suggests that heightened RewP may be a plasticity factor and moderate the association between emotional abuse and young adult depressive symptoms in a differential susceptibility manner.

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confidence: 99%

Heightened neural reward responsiveness functions as a plasticity factor moderating the association between childhood emotional abuse and young adult depressive symptoms: Evidence of differential susceptibility.

Yang,

Xu,

Cao

2024

Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science

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“…Participants were first asked to finish the SST to increase self-awareness (Xu et al, 2021). In the SST task, participants in the self-awareness group were asked to unscramble 80 scrambled sentences (18° of visual angle) that started with-"I" (e.g., I buy some bread), whereas participants in the control group received 80 scrambled sentences (18° of visual angle) which started with "he" or "she" (e.g., He buys some bread).…”

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“…It leads people to compare themselves to certain standards and endows success with more necessity and value, thereby mobilizing more resources to meet these standards (Silvia et al, 2010(Silvia et al, , 2011. Many studies have supported this viewpoint (Alberts et al, 2011;Huang et al, 2017;Xu et al, 2021). One example is the study by Alberts et al (2011), which found that cognitive resources can be protected by priming self-awareness to circumvent the occurrence of ego depletion.…”

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“…Although some people are more self-aware than others in trait (this trait is called self-consciousness) (Fenigstein et al, 1975), self-awareness can be temporarily increased by various manipulations, such as seeing oneself in the mirror (Wiekens and Stapel, 2008;Bender et al, 2018) or priming self-related personal pronouns (Walla et al, 2007;Xu et al, 2021). The scrambled sentence task (SST) is an implicit paradigm that has been shown to effectively increase self-awareness.…”

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Self-awareness protects working memory in people under chronic stress: An ERP study

Xing

Zhang²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Chronic stress impairs working memory (WM), but few studies have explored the protective factors of the impairment. We aimed to investigate the effect of self-awareness on WM processing in people under chronic stress. Participants under chronic stress completed an n-back task after a self-awareness priming paradigm during which electroencephalograms were recorded. The behavioral results showed that participants whose self-awareness was primed reacted faster and more accurately than the controls. Event-related potentials (ERPs) revealed the following (1) P2 was more positive in the self-awareness group than in the controls, indicating that self-awareness enhanced allocation of attention resources at the encoding stage. (2) N2 was attenuated in the self-awareness group compared with the controls, indicating that smaller attention control efforts were required to complete WM tasks adequately after self-awareness priming; and (3) enhanced late positive potential (LPP) was evoked in the self-awareness group compared with the controls, suggesting self-awareness enabled participants to focus attention resources on the information at the maintenance stage. Critically, mediational analyses showed that LPP mediated the relationship between self-awareness and WM response times. This result suggests that the fact that participants whose self-awareness was primed were able to achieve better behavioral performances may be attributed to their mobilization of sustained attention resources at the maintenance stage. In summary, self-awareness exerted a protective effect on WM in those under chronic stress, which may be due to the enhancements in the allocation and mobilization of attention. These results could be used to develop more specific coping strategies for people under chronic stress.

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“…Otra de las competencias personales es el autoconocimiento, entendida como la capacidad de monitorear autoconscientemente las actividades cognitivas, los recursos empleados para desarrollarlas y sus resultados; utilizando para ello habilidades de autoanálisis y autoevaluación que permitan cuestionar, confirmar, validar y corregir los razonamientos derivados (Prieto, 2018). Dicha competencia resulta similar a la autoconsciencia, referenciada por Xu et al (2021) como la capacidad de una persona para auto reconocerse en los diferentes contextos en los que se desenvuelve, a partir de su relación con los demás actores de su entorno.…”

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Fortalezas y debilidades de los jóvenes emprendedores desde la visión de las ciudades inteligentes

Palma

Redondo

2022

Des.Geren

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Objetivo: El propósito de este estudio se centró en caracterizar las fortalezas y debilidades de los jóvenes emprendedores desde la visión de las ciudades inteligentes con el fin de identificar los elementos más significativos en su comportamiento. Método: Se desarrolló un estudio descriptivo-comparativo en el que se analizaron 19 dimensiones de personalidad. Se trabajó sobre una población de 500 empresarios de la ciudad de Barranquilla, Colombia, tomando como muestra un grupo de jóvenes empresarios menores de 26 años. Resultados: Se identificaron hallazgos relevantes para su uso en el diseño de propuestas gubernamentales o fortalecimiento de programas educativos; encontrando que las dimensiones de autoconfianza, escucha activa y perseverancia fueron las competencias de personalidad mejor percibidas entre los jóvenes de ambos géneros; y, asimismo, destacándose la competitividad, constancia y curiosidad, dentro del grupo de competencias laborales. De igual forma, en las dimensiones de perseverancia y originalidad, las mujeres obtuvieron mejores calificaciones; mientras que, en el ingenio, los hombres mostraron mejores resultados. Conclusiones: Los hallazgos encontrados permiten dar cuenta que los jóvenes de la ciudad de Barranquilla poseen un alto nivel de potencialidad para su crecimiento en el ámbito emprendedor.

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Self-awareness buffers the consequences of negative feedback: Evidence from an ERP study

Cited by 6 publications

References 95 publications

Heightened neural reward responsiveness functions as a plasticity factor moderating the association between childhood emotional abuse and young adult depressive symptoms: Evidence of differential susceptibility.

Heightened neural reward responsiveness functions as a plasticity factor moderating the association between childhood emotional abuse and young adult depressive symptoms: Evidence of differential susceptibility.

Self-awareness protects working memory in people under chronic stress: An ERP study

Fortalezas y debilidades de los jóvenes emprendedores desde la visión de las ciudades inteligentes

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