Huppert Jonathan D, Pasupuleti Radhika V, Foa Edna B, Mathews Andrew
Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3535 Market St, Suite 600N, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Behav Res Ther. 2007 Jul;45(7):1505-15. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.01.006. Epub 2007 Feb 4.
Cognitive theories propose that the resolution of ambiguity is related to the maintenance of social anxiety. A sentence completion task was used to examine how individuals high (n=26) and low (n=23) in social anxiety resolve ambiguous social sentences. Individuals were asked to generate as many responses as came to mind for each sentence, and then to endorse the response that best completes the sentence. Total responses, first responses, and endorsed responses were examined separately. Results indicated that high anxious individuals had more negative and anxious responses and fewer positive and neutral responses than low anxious individuals on all sentence completion measures. In contrast, a self-report measure of interpretation bias indicated that more of negative and anxious appraisals were related to social anxiety, while positive and neutral appraisals were not. Results are discussed in terms of a multi-stage processing model of interpretation biases.
认知理论认为，歧义的解决与社交焦虑的维持有关。使用句子完成任务来考察社交焦虑程度高（n = 26）和低（n = 23）的个体如何解析具有歧义的社交句子。要求个体针对每个句子想出尽可能多的回答，然后选出最能完成句子的回答。分别对总回答数、首个回答数和被认可的回答数进行了考察。结果表明，在所有句子完成指标上，高焦虑个体比低焦虑个体有更多消极和焦虑的回答，而积极和中性的回答更少。相比之下，一项解释偏差的自我报告测量表明，更多消极和焦虑的评价与社交焦虑有关，而积极和中性评价则不然。根据解释偏差的多阶段加工模型对结果进行了讨论。
