The effect of a single-session attention modification program on response to a public-speaking challenge in socially anxious individuals.
The effect of a single-session attention modification program on response to a public-speaking challenge in socially anxious individuals.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0013445
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发表时间：
2008-11
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Taylor, Charles T.
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作者：
Amir, Nader;Weber, Geri;Beard, Courtney;Bomyea, Jessica;Taylor, Charles T.
研究表明，患有社交焦虑的人对与威胁相关的信息表现出注意偏差。然而，很少有研究直接操纵注意力来检验其对焦虑的影响。在本文中，作者测试了这样一个假设：注意力调节计划可以有效减少焦虑反应并提高公开演讲挑战的表现。社交焦虑的参与者通过识别字母（E 或 F）替换一对面孔中的一个（中性或厌恶）来完成探测检测任务。作者通过在一组中包含中性面部位置和探针之间的意外情况来训练注意力（注意力修改计划；AMP）。与注意力控制条件（ACC）组的参与者相比，AMP 组的参与者在训练后表现出明显较少的对威胁的注意偏差，并且在应对公开演讲挑战时的焦虑水平也较低。此外，盲评者认为 AMP 组的演讲优于 ACC 组的演讲。这些结果与注意力在社交焦虑的维持中起着因果作用的假设是一致的。
Research suggests that individuals with social anxiety show an attention bias for threat-relevant information However, few studies have directly manipulated attention to examine its effect on anxiety. In the current article, the authors tested the hypothesis that an attention modification program would be effective in reducing anxiety response and improving performance on a public-speaking challenge. Socially anxious participants completed a probe detection task by identifying letters (E or F) replacing one member of a pair of faces (neutral or disgust). The authors trained attention by including a contingency between the location of the neutral face and the probe in one group (Attention Modification Program; AMP). Participants in the AMP group showed significantly less attention bias to threat after training and lower levels of anxiety in response to a public-speaking challenge than did the participants in the Attention Control Condition (ACC) group. Moreover, blind raters judged the speeches of those in the AMP group as better than those in the ACC group. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that attention plays a causal role in the maintenance of social anxiety.
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