Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Center for Alcohol and Drug Research, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Memory. 2020 Apr;28(4):516-527. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1738497. Epub 2020 Mar 9.
Intrusive involuntary memories and images are a cardinal phenomenon in a range of psychological disorders, but not systematically examined in social anxiety. We examined potential biases upon generating involuntary versus voluntary memories and future projections in individuals with high and low levels of social anxiety. Participants recorded involuntary and voluntary autobiographical events, and their associated emotional response in a structured mental time travel diary. High social anxiety was associated with more intense anxiety and embarrassment and greater use of a range of emotion regulation strategies upon generating all types of autobiographical events. Involuntary (versus voluntary) memories and future events were associated with a heightened emotional response independent of social anxiety, and memories were associated with more embarrassment than imagined future events. The effects of high versus low social anxiety and involuntary versus voluntary generation process were independent from each other. The findings have implications for affective and cognitive models of involuntary memories and future projections in emotional disorders.
侵入性的不由自主的记忆和图像是一系列心理障碍的主要现象，但在社交焦虑中并未系统地进行检查。我们研究了在具有高社交焦虑和低社交焦虑的个体中生成不由自主的记忆和未来投射时可能存在的偏见。参与者在结构化的心理时间旅行日记中记录了不由自主和自愿的自传事件及其相关的情绪反应。高社交焦虑与更强烈的焦虑和尴尬以及在生成所有类型的自传事件时更广泛地使用一系列情绪调节策略相关。不由自主的（与自愿的相比）记忆和未来事件与独立于社交焦虑的更高的情绪反应相关，并且记忆与想象中的未来事件相比更容易引起尴尬。高社交焦虑与低社交焦虑以及不由自主与自愿生成过程的影响是相互独立的。这些发现对情感障碍中不由自主的记忆和未来投射的情感和认知模型具有启示意义。
