Emotional intelligence mediates the association between middle temporal gyrus gray matter volume and social anxiety in late adolescence.

As a common mental health problem, social anxiety refers to the fear and avoidance of interacting in social or performance situations, which plays a crucial role in many health and social problems. Although a growing body of studies has explored the neuroanatomical alterations related to social anxi...

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Publicado en:European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 30; no. 12; pp. 1857 - 1870
Autores principales: Wang, Song, Zhao, Yajun, Wang, Xiuli, Yang, Xun, Cheng, Bochao, Pan, Nanfang, Suo, Xueling, Gong, Qiyong
Formato: diagnostic images research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021
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          Wang, Song
          Zhao, Yajun
          Wang, Xiuli
          Yang, Xun
          Cheng, Bochao
          Pan, Nanfang
          Suo, Xueling
          Gong, Qiyong
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          Emotional Intelligence In Adolescence
          Temporal Lobe Anatomy and Histology
          Gray Matter Anatomy and Histology
          Social Anxiety Disorders Risk Factors
          High School Graduates
          Risk Assessment
          Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods
          Human
          Adolescence
          Brain Radiography
          Brain Anatomy and Histology
          Cognition
          Emotions
          Anxiety
          Depression
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
      ab: As a common mental health problem, social anxiety refers to the fear and avoidance of interacting in social or performance situations, which plays a crucial role in many health and social problems. Although a growing body of studies has explored the neuroanatomical alterations related to social anxiety in clinical patients, far fewer have examined the association between social anxiety and brain morphology in the general population, which may help us understand the neural underpinnings of social anxiety more comprehensively. Here, utilizing a voxel-based morphometry approach via structural magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated brain gray matter correlates of social anxiety in 231 recent graduates of the same high school grade. We found that social anxiety was positively associated with gray matter volume in the right middle temporal gyrus (MTG), which is a core brain area for cognitive processing of emotions and feelings. Critically, emotional intelligence mediated the impact of right MTG volume on social anxiety. Notably, our results persisted even when controlling for the effects of general anxiety and depression. Altogether, our research reveals right MTG gray matter volume as a neurostructural correlate of social anxiety in a general sample of adolescents and suggests a potential indirect effect of emotional intelligence on the association between gray matter volume and social anxiety.
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