Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Psychotherapy (Chic). 2012 Jun;49(2):173-9. doi: 10.1037/a0024734. Epub 2011 Oct 3.
Outcome expectancy, the extent that clients anticipate benefiting from therapy, is theorized to be an important predictor of treatment response for cognitive-behavioral therapy. However, there is a relatively small body of empirical research on outcome expectancy and the treatment of social anxiety disorder. This literature, which has examined the association mostly in group-based interventions, has yielded mixed findings. The current study sought to further evaluate the effect of outcome expectancy as a predictor of treatment response for public-speaking fears across both individual virtual reality and group-based cognitive-behavioral therapies. The findings supported outcome expectancy as a predictor of the rate of change in public-speaking anxiety during both individual virtual reality exposure therapy and group cognitive-behavioral therapy. Furthermore, there was no evidence to suggest that the impact of outcome expectancy differed across virtual reality or group treatments.
结果预期，即客户预期从治疗中受益的程度，被理论化为认知行为疗法治疗反应的一个重要预测因素。然而，关于结果预期和社交焦虑障碍治疗的实证研究相对较少。这一文献主要在基于群体的干预措施中检验了两者的关联，得出的结果喜忧参半。本研究旨在进一步评估结果预期作为个体虚拟现实和基于群体的认知行为疗法治疗演讲恐惧的治疗反应的预测因素的效果。研究结果支持结果预期作为个体虚拟现实暴露疗法和群体认知行为疗法中演讲焦虑变化率的预测因素。此外，没有证据表明结果预期对虚拟现实或群体治疗的影响有差异。
