Social anxiety and memory: the role of social anxiety in the prediction of affective valence of self-defining autobiographical memories and neural differences in working memory

This research centres on Social Anxiety and Depression based on the DSM-V and analyzing how this comorbidity affects other variables like self-esteem and memory components. Both behavioral and neuroscientific aspects were incorporated into this study by examining the dominion of autobiographical memory via the behavioral trajectory; whilst the course of neuroscientific exploration was routed via the study of working memory processing and utilizing EEG in recording brain activity. It was discovered that social anxiety and depression largely correlated with self-esteem as expected; and social anxiety specifically had a large impact on both memory components.