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Screening anxiety via contrastive autobiographical recall

  • By

  • Shamim Ibne Shahid

  • Mohammad Hassan Tayarani Najaran

  • Frank Förster

  • Volker Steuber

  • May 25, 2026

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    The study introduces a contrastive autobiographical recall framework for digital anxiety screening using spontaneous speech.

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    156 participants shared positive and negative memories, with anxiety status defined by HAM-A scores, resulting in non-anxious and anxious groups.

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    The proposed method achieved 70% accuracy and 0.67 macro-F1, with better performance for non-anxious participants compared to anxious ones.

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    Ablation analysis indicated that the full composite representation yielded the best performance in detecting anxiety.

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    The findings suggest that spontaneous autobiographical speech can enhance digital anxiety screening, but further validation in larger cohorts is necessary.

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Screening anxiety via contrastive autobiographical recall

  • by Shamim Ibne Shahid, Mohammad Hassan Tayarani Najaran, Frank Förster, Volker Steuber

  • May 25, 2026

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