Forming beliefs about the self by means of self-related learning in social anxiety disorder

通过社交焦虑症患者的自我相关学习形成自我信念

• 批准号: 409077904
• 负责人: Dr. Laura Müller-Pinzler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/409077904?language=en
• 关键词: Forming; beliefs; about; self; means

Forming beliefs about the self is an important factor for social behavior regulation. Typically, a social situation is a very rich source of social feedback and self-related information. Therefore, forming beliefs about oneself strongly depends on the social context. However, little is known about how exposure to a public context shapes individuals’ self-image, and which cognitive and affective factors contribute to learning information about oneself. In the first part of the current application, I will therefore investigate how self-related information is processed and will disentangle the role of three important aspects that impact how we form self-related beliefs: First, I will investigate (biased) prediction error processing specifically for self-related information compared to other-related information. Second, the role of affective arousal and embarrassment when forming self-related beliefs will be assessed. Third, the specific impact of the social context, i.e. being in a public context, on learning about the self will be illuminated. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) has been pinpointed as an important factor modulating social functioning. Individuals suffering from SAD typically maintain low self-esteem and negative views of the self. Thus, in the second part of my application, I will extend the findings on self-related learning in a social context in order to explain how negative self-views might be learned and maintained in SAD. In so doing, I will gain novel insights into specific maladaptive behavioral and neural response mechanisms in SAD and provide indications for the development of new treatment strategies for SAD in the future.

形成对自我的信念是调节社会行为的重要因素。通常，社交情境是社会反馈和自我相关信息的一个非常丰富的来源。因此，形成对自己的信念在很大程度上取决于社会背景。然而，关于暴露在公共环境中如何塑造个人的自我形象，以及哪些认知和情感因素有助于学习关于自己的信息，人们知之甚少。因此，在本申请的第一部分，我将研究自我相关信息是如何被处理的，并将解开影响我们如何形成自我相关信念的三个重要方面的作用：首先，我将研究专门针对自我相关信息与其他相关信息的(有偏见的)预测误差处理。其次，将评估情感唤醒和尴尬在形成自我相关信念时的作用。第三，社会背景，即处于公共环境中，对了解自我的具体影响将被阐明。社交焦虑症(SAD)被认为是调节社会功能的重要因素。患有SAD的人通常会保持较低的自尊和对自我的负面看法。因此，在我的申请的第二部分，我将在社会背景下扩展关于自我相关学习的发现，以解释如何在SAD中学习和保持消极的自我观点。通过这样做，我将对SAD中特定的适应不良行为和神经反应机制获得新的见解，并为未来SAD新的治疗策略的发展提供指征。