Comparison of Behavioral Brain Systems and Difficulty of Emotional Regulation Profile in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder and Normal People

Previous research has shown that social anxiety disorder is associated with problems in many areas of life, considering this issue and the importance of identifying factors affecting social anxiety, the present study was aimed to Compare Behavioral Brain Systems Profile and Difficulty of Emotional Regulation in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder and Normal People. The present work is a causal comparative study. We studied 43 women
(Including 23 women with social anxiety disorder and another 20 ones with normal conditions), these participants were selected based on purposive method among the woman who came Neyshabur counseling centers from Mehr to Espand of 2017 (1396). In order to analyze the data, we applied the following measuring tools: SCID-I, Connor's social phobia inventory, difficulties in emotion regulation and behavioral inhibition system/behavioral activation system and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Findings: Based on the results, there are significant differences between the woman with social anxiety disorder and normal women, specifically at the levels of difficulties in emotion regulation and behavioral inhibition system/behavioral activation system (P