Sabino Alini Daniéli Viana, Camargo Cristielli M, Chagas Marcos Hortes N, Osório Flávia L
Department of Neuroscience and Behavior, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Center for Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.
Front Psychiatry. 2018 Jan 25;9:5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00005. eCollection 2018.
Music performance anxiety (MPA) can be defined as a lasting and intense apprehension connected with musical performance in public. Studies suggest that MPA can be regarded as a subtype of social anxiety. Since individuals with social anxiety have deficits in the recognition of facial emotion, we hypothesized that musicians with high levels of MPA would share similar impairments.
The aim of this study was to compare parameters of facial emotion recognition (FER) between musicians with high and low MPA.
150 amateur and professional musicians with different musical backgrounds were assessed in respect to their level of MPA and completed a dynamic FER task. The outcomes investigated were accuracy, response time, emotional intensity, and response bias.
Musicians with high MPA were less accurate in the recognition of happiness ( = 0.04; = 0.34), had increased response bias toward fear ( = 0.03), and increased response time to facial emotions as a whole ( = 0.02; = 0.39).
Musicians with high MPA displayed FER deficits that were independent of general anxiety levels and possibly of general cognitive capacity. These deficits may favor the maintenance and exacerbation of experiences of anxiety during public performance, since cues of approval, satisfaction, and encouragement are not adequately recognized.
音乐表演焦虑（MPA）可定义为与在公众场合进行音乐表演相关的持续且强烈的忧虑。研究表明，MPA可被视为社交焦虑的一种亚型。由于社交焦虑个体在面部表情识别方面存在缺陷，我们推测高水平MPA的音乐家也会有类似的损伤。
本研究旨在比较高MPA和低MPA音乐家之间的面部表情识别（FER）参数。
对150名具有不同音乐背景的业余和专业音乐家的MPA水平进行评估，并让他们完成一项动态FER任务。所调查的结果包括准确性、反应时间、情感强度和反应偏差。
高MPA的音乐家在识别快乐表情时准确性较低（ = 0.04； = 0.34），对恐惧表情的反应偏差增加（ = 0.03），并且对整体面部表情的反应时间增加（ = 0.02； = 0.39）。
高MPA的音乐家表现出FER缺陷，这些缺陷独立于一般焦虑水平，可能也独立于一般认知能力。这些缺陷可能有利于在公开表演期间焦虑体验的维持和加剧，因为认可、满意和鼓励的线索没有得到充分识别。
