The relation between social anxiety and audience perception: examining Clark and Wells' (1995) model among adolescents.
The relation between social anxiety and audience perception: examining Clark and Wells' (1995) model among adolescents.
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DOI：
10.1017/s1352465813000271
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发表时间：
2014-09
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Westenberg PM
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文献类型：
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作者：
Blöte AW;Miers AC;Heyne DA;Clark DM;Westenberg PM
社交焦虑的认知模型认为，社交焦虑的个体在社交活动之前对表现有负面期望，他们的注意力主要集中在自己和事件期间的负面自我评价上，并利用这种负面的自我加工来推断其他人对他们的评价很苛刻。本研究对这些命题进行了检验。这项研究使用了161名14-18岁青少年的社区样本。参与者在预先录制的观众面前发表演讲，表现中立，参与者意识到投影的观众是预先录制的。正如预期的那样，社交焦虑水平较高的参与者有更多的负面表现预期，更高的自我集中注意力，以及对观众更负面的看法。消极的表演期望和自我集中的注意在社交焦虑和观众感知之间起到了中介作用。这一发现支持了克拉克和威尔斯的社交焦虑认知模型，该模型认为，社交焦虑的人扭曲了对他人反应的感知，因为他们的感知被自己的负面想法和感受所影响。
) cognitive model of social anxiety proposes that socially anxious individuals have negative expectations of performance prior to a social event, focus their attention predominantly on themselves and on their negative self-evaluations during an event, and use this negative self processing to infer that other people are judging them harshly. The present study tested these propositions. The study used a community sample of 161 adolescents aged 14-18 years. The participants gave a speech in front of a pre-recorded audience acting neutrally, and participants were aware that the projected audience was pre-recorded. As expected, participants with higher levels of social anxiety had more negative performance expectations, higher self-focused attention, and more negative perceptions of the audience. Negative performance expectations and self-focused attention were found to mediate the relationship between social anxiety and audience perception. The findings support Clark and Wells’ cognitive model of social anxiety which poses that socially anxious individuals have distorted perceptions of the responses of other people because their perceptions are colored by their negative thoughts and feelings.