Daniel Nikolaus Alvarez-Nuacute;ntilde;ez Author

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The Effect of Anxiety on Verbal and Visual Priming Tasks an Adolescent Victims of Bullying

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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 more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8947.1000188

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