Araceli Sanz-Martin Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Violence in childhood, Child Abuse, Electrical brain activity, Memory
Instituto de Neurociencias, CUCBA, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, M
Research Article Open Access
Author(s): Araceli Sanz-Martin, Daniel Nikolaus Alvarez-Núñez, Olga Inozemtseva
Bullying is a stressing event that can generate long-term repercussions in victims including anxiety and low academic achievement. Many studies have demonstrated that anxiety can modulate the way in which information is encoded and recovered, especially if it has emotional content. Studies using priming tasks have reported that patients with anxiety disorder tend to remember threatening events better than pleasant or neutral ones. The objective of this study, therefore, was to determine whether the presence of anxiety has an effect on the performance of priming tasks with negative stimuli in victims of bullying. For this purpose, three groups of adolescents: bullying victims with anxiety (BVWA); bullying victims without anxiety (BV); and non-victims (NV), performed verbal and facial pri... view moreĀ»