Amin N, Foa E B, Coles M E
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
Behav Res Ther. 1998 Oct;36(10):945-57. doi: 10.1016/s0005-7967(98)00060-6.
We examined the hypothesis that, compared to non-anxious controls (NACs) and individuals with other anxiety disorders (e.g., individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder; OCs), individuals with generalized social phobia (GSPs) would tend to interpret ambiguous social scenarios as negative when provided with various alternative interpretations. Participants were presented with 22 ambiguous scenarios each followed by three possible interpretations: positive, negative, and neutral. Fifteen scenarios were socially relevant and the remaining 7 were nonsocially relevant. Participants were asked to rank order the three interpretations according to the likelihood that each would come to their mind and to a 'typical person's' mind in similar situations. Results revealed that GSPs (but not NACs or OCs) tended to choose a negative interpretation for ambiguous social scenarios even when a positive interpretation was available. This bias was specific to self-relevant scenarios. These results support the hypothesis that a specific negative interpretation bias may be involved in the maintenance of social phobia.
与非焦虑对照组（NACs）以及患有其他焦虑症的个体（例如，患有强迫症的个体；OCs）相比，广泛性社交恐惧症患者（GSPs）在面对各种不同的解释时，往往会将模糊的社交场景解读为负面的。研究人员向参与者展示了22个模糊场景，每个场景后面都跟着三种可能的解释：积极的、消极的和中性的。其中15个场景与社交相关，其余7个与社交无关。参与者被要求根据每种解释在他们自己以及处于类似情境中的“普通人”脑海中出现的可能性，对这三种解释进行排序。结果显示，即使存在积极的解释，GSPs（而非NACs或OCs）仍倾向于为模糊的社交场景选择消极的解释。这种偏差特定于与自身相关的场景。这些结果支持了这样一种假设，即特定的消极解释偏差可能与社交恐惧症的维持有关。
