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J Anxiety Disord. 2010 Apr;24(3):345-52. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.01.007. Epub 2010 Feb 2.
This paper examines how two proposed cognitive vulnerabilities of social anxiety, the fear of negative evaluation, and looming cognitive style may combine with socially demanding situations in predicting social anxiety symptoms and performance deficits. Fifty-two individuals previously identified as possessing these two cognitive vulnerabilities were randomly assigned to conditions in a 2 (high versus low social evaluation)x2 (high versus low temporal looming) experimental design. Significant interaction effects were found for: (a) residual change in anxiety symptoms from baseline level, and (b) performance on a speech task. Specifically, cognitively at-risk individuals exhibited the most increase in anxiety and the most performance deficits in the condition where social evaluation and temporal looming were high. In addition, a mediational effect of illusion of transparency (a form of self-attentional bias) between situational demands and residual change in anxiety was found. Implications arising from these results are discussed.
本文探讨了两种被提议的社交焦虑认知脆弱性，即对负面评价的恐惧和逼近认知风格，如何与社会要求高的情境结合，预测社交焦虑症状和表现缺陷。52 名先前被确定为具有这两种认知脆弱性的个体被随机分配到 2（高与低社会评价）x2（高与低时间逼近）实验设计的条件中。发现了显著的交互效应：（a）从基线水平的焦虑症状残留变化，以及（b）言语任务的表现。具体来说，在社会评价和时间逼近都高的情况下，认知风险高的个体表现出最大的焦虑增加和最大的表现缺陷。此外，在情境需求和焦虑残留变化之间发现了透明度错觉（一种自我注意偏差的形式）的中介效应。讨论了这些结果所带来的影响。
