Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Behav Res Ther. 2012 Jan;50(1):30-9. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.10.005. Epub 2011 Oct 25.
Social phobics exhibit an attentional bias for threat in probe detection and probe discrimination paradigms. Attention training programs, in which probes always replace nonthreatening cues, reduce attentional bias for threat and self-reported social anxiety. However, researchers have seldom included behavioral measures of anxiety reduction, and have never taken physiological measures of anxiety reduction. In the present study, we trained individuals with generalized social phobia (n = 57) to attend to threat cues (attend to threat), to attend to positive cues (attend to positive), or to alternately attend to both (control condition). We assessed not only self-reported social anxiety, but also behavioral and physiological measures of social anxiety. Participants trained to attend to nonthreatening cues demonstrated significantly greater reductions in self-reported, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety than did participants from the attend to threat and control conditions.
社交恐惧症患者在探测检测和探测辨别范式中表现出对威胁的注意力偏向。在注意力训练计划中，探测总是取代无威胁的线索，从而减少对威胁和自我报告的社交焦虑的注意力偏向。然而，研究人员很少包括焦虑减轻的行为测量，也从未进行过焦虑减轻的生理测量。在本研究中，我们训练了患有广泛性社交恐惧症的个体（n=57）注意威胁线索（注意威胁）、注意积极线索（注意积极）或交替注意两者（对照组）。我们不仅评估了自我报告的社交焦虑，还评估了社交焦虑的行为和生理测量。与注意威胁和对照组的参与者相比，接受非威胁性线索训练的参与者在自我报告、行为和生理焦虑测量方面的减少幅度显著更大。
