Department of Psychology and Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Cogn Emot. 2020 Jun;34(4):700-712. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1675596. Epub 2019 Oct 9.
Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder suggest that memory biases for negative social information contribute to symptoms of social anxiety (SA). However, it remains unclear whether memory biases in SA are related to information, specifically, and if so, whether the valence of such information would moderate memory performance. In the present study, 197 community participants were randomised to imagine themselves as the central character in either 10 social or 10 non-social scenarios. In both conditions, half of the scenarios ended with objectively positive outcomes and half ended with objectively negative outcomes. Results demonstrated that higher trait SA was related to memory performance for social scenarios only, and in particular to poorer memory for social scenarios that ended positively. Thus, the impact of SA on memory performance depended on how social information was framed, with higher SA related to poorer memory for positive social experiences. These context-specific effects contribute to the growing literature on positivity deficits in SA.
社交焦虑障碍的认知模型表明，对负面社交信息的记忆偏差会导致社交焦虑（SA）的症状。然而，目前尚不清楚 SA 中的记忆偏差是否与特定的信息有关，如果是这样，信息的效价是否会调节记忆表现。在本研究中，197 名社区参与者被随机分配到想象自己是 10 个社交或 10 个非社交场景中的中心角色。在两种情况下，一半的场景以客观的积极结果结束，一半以客观的消极结果结束。结果表明，较高的特质 SA 仅与社交场景的记忆表现有关，特别是与以积极方式结束的社交场景的记忆较差有关。因此，SA 对记忆表现的影响取决于社交信息的呈现方式，较高的 SA 与对积极社交体验的较差记忆有关。这些特定于情境的影响有助于丰富社交焦虑中积极缺失的文献。
