Rapee Ronald M, Abbott Maree J
Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Behav Res Ther. 2007 Dec;45(12):2977-89. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.08.008. Epub 2007 Aug 11.
Cognitive models of social phobia predict that several cognitive processes will mediate the relationship between trait levels of social anxiety and the extent of anxiety experienced in a specific social-evaluative situation. The current study aimed to provide a test of these relationships. Over 200 clinical participants with social phobia completed measures of their general social anxiety and a week later performed a brief impromptu speech. They completed a measure of state anxiety in response to the speech as well as questionnaires assessing several cognitive constructs including focus of perceived attention, perceived performance, and probability and cost of negative evaluation. A week later, they completed measures of negative rumination experienced over the week, as well as a measure of the recollection of their perceived performance. Path analysis provided support for a model in which the cognitive factors mediated between general social anxiety and the degree of anxiety experienced in response to the speech. A second model supported the theory that negative rumination mediated between characteristic social anxiety and negative bias in the recollection of performance.
社交恐惧症的认知模型预测，几种认知过程将调节社交焦虑特质水平与特定社会评价情境中所体验到的焦虑程度之间的关系。本研究旨在对这些关系进行检验。200多名患有社交恐惧症的临床参与者完成了一般社交焦虑的测量，一周后进行了一次简短的即兴演讲。他们完成了一项针对演讲的状态焦虑测量，以及评估几种认知结构的问卷，包括感知注意力焦点、感知表现以及负面评价的可能性和代价。一周后，他们完成了对一周内经历的负面反刍的测量，以及对其感知表现的回忆测量。路径分析为一个模型提供了支持，该模型中认知因素在一般社交焦虑和演讲所体验到的焦虑程度之间起中介作用。第二个模型支持了这样一种理论，即负面反刍在特质性社交焦虑和表现回忆中的负面偏差之间起中介作用。
