Soziale Ängstlichkeit, selbstzentrierte Aufmerksamkeit und kardiovaskuläre Reaktivität in emotionalen Belastungssituationen
Year: 2015
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study examines the role of self-focused attention in social phobia in regards to physiological and affective effects during an anticipation period, a speech task and a recovery period.Thirty high and 30 low socially anxious individuals engaged in a five minutes speech task in front of a video camera.Participants in the self-focus condition were exposed to the video the camera was recording.The results of the anticipation period suggest that high socially anxious participants appear to show greater reactivity in their diastolic blood pressure when attention is focused on the self and report more perceived physiological arousal.During the speech task participants high in trait social anxiety displayed greater increases in their heartrate.Results also appear to suggest that high socially anxious participants had greater heartrate reactivity when attention was focused on the self.This indicates greater task engagement in high socially anxious participants in the self-focus condition when success is still seen as possible.Further greater increases in negative affect, perceived physiological arousal and threat appraisals were found in individuals high in trait social anxiety during speech.High socially anxious individuals also displayed more negative post-task rumination after a speech task.
Author: Frei, Stephanie
Language: German
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7043281760