Social Influences of Error Monitoring

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dc.contributor.advisorFox, Nathan Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorBarker, Tyson Vernen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHuman Developmenten_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:55:12Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:55:12Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractAdolescence is characterized by dramatic hormonal, physical, and psychological changes, and is a period of risk for affective and anxiety disorders. Pubertal development during adolescence plays a major role in the emergence of these disorders, particularly among girls. Thus, it is critical to identify early biomarkers of risk. One potential biomarker, the error-related negativity (ERN), is an event-related potential following an erroneous response. Individuals with an anxiety disorder demonstrate a greater ERN than healthy comparisons, an association which is stronger in adolescence, suggesting that pubertal development may play a role in the ERN as a predictor of anxiety. One form of anxiety often observed in adolescence, particularly among girls, is social anxiety, which is defined as anxiety elicited by social-evaluative contexts. In adults, enhancements of the ERN in social-evaluative contexts is positively related to social anxiety symptoms, suggesting that the ERN in social contexts may serve as a biomarker for social anxiety. This dissertation examined the ERN in and its relation with puberty and social anxiety among 76 adolescent girls. Adolescent girls completed a flanker task in two differenten_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2NN37
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18271
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDevelopmental psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysiological psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledClinical psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAdolescenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAnxietyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCognitive Controlen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledError-Related Negativityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPositive Erroren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPubertyen_US
dc.titleSocial Influences of Error Monitoringen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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