Speech disturbances and gaze behavior during public speaking in subtypes of social phobia
Speech disturbances and gaze behavior during public speaking in subtypes of social phobia
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DOI:
10.1016/s0887-6185(97)00040-6
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发表时间:
1997-11-01
影响因子:
10.3
通讯作者:
Roth, WT
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作者:
Hofmann, SG;Gerlach, AL;Roth, WT
Twenty-four social phobics with public speaking anxiety and 25 nonphobic individuals (controls) gave a speech in front of two people. Subjective anxiety, gaze behavior, and speech disturbances were assessed. Based on subjects' fear ratings of social situations, phobics and controls were divided into the generalized and nongeneralized subtype. Results showed that generalized phobics reported the most,and nongeneralized controls the least anxiety during public speaking. All subjects had longer and more frequent eye contact when delivering a speech than when talking with an experimenter or sitting in front of an audience. Phobics showed more filled pauses, had longer silent pauses, paused more frequently, and spent mon time pausing than controls when giving a speech. Generalized phobics spent more time pausing during their speech than the other subgroups (nongeneralized controls, generalized controls, and nongeneralized phobics). These results suggest that generalized phobics tended to shift attentional resources from speech production to other cognitive tasks. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.