Anderl Christine, Steil Regina, Hahn Tim, Hitzeroth Patricia, Reif Andreas, Windmann Sabine
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Psychology, Health Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry. 2018 Jun;59:12-18. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.10.005. Epub 2017 Oct 24.
Social anxiety is known to impair interpersonal relationships. These impairments are thought to partly arise from difficulties to engage in affiliative interactions with others, such as sharing favors or reciprocating prosocial acts. Here, we examined whether individuals high compared to low in social anxiety differ in giving towards strangers in an economic game paradigm.
One hundred and twenty seven non-clinical participants who had been pre-screened to be either particularly high or low in social anxiety played an incentivized Trust Game to assess trustful and reciprocal giving towards strangers in addition to providing information on real life interpersonal functioning (perceived social support and attachment style).
We found that reciprocal, but not trustful giving, was significantly decreased among highly socially anxious individuals. Both social anxiety and reciprocal giving furthermore showed significant associations with self-reported real life interpersonal functioning.
Participants played the Trust Game with the strategy method; results need replication with a clinical sample.
Individuals high in social anxiety showed reduced reciprocal, but intact trustful giving, pointing to a constraint in responsiveness. The research may contribute to the development of new treatment and prevention programs to reduce the interpersonal impairments in socially anxious individuals.
社交焦虑会损害人际关系，这种损害部分被认为源于难以与他人进行亲和互动，比如分享帮助或回报亲社会行为。在此，我们研究了在经济博弈范式中，社交焦虑程度高的个体与低的个体在给予陌生人方面是否存在差异。
127名非临床参与者，他们预先被筛选出社交焦虑程度特别高或特别低，除了提供关于现实生活中人际功能（感知到的社会支持和依恋风格）的信息外，还玩了一个激励性信任游戏，以评估对陌生人的信任和互惠给予。
我们发现，在社交焦虑程度高的个体中，互惠给予显著减少，但信任给予没有减少。此外，社交焦虑和互惠给予都与自我报告的现实生活人际功能显著相关。
参与者采用策略方法玩信任游戏；结果需要用临床样本进行重复验证。
社交焦虑程度高的个体互惠给予减少，但信任给予完好，这表明反应能力存在局限。该研究可能有助于开发新的治疗和预防方案，以减少社交焦虑个体的人际损害。
