Social Anxiety Disorder and Self-Regulatory Depletion

社交焦虑症和自我调节衰竭

• 批准号: 7073675
• 负责人: Peter Niels CHRISTENSEN
• 金额: $ 18.89万
• 依托单位: RADFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-04 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7073675
• 关键词: anxiety disorders; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; human subject; interview; locus of control; perceptual distortions; phobias; psychic activity level; psychological models; psychological stressor; psychological tests; questionnaires; social adjustment; social behavior; social psychology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Social anxiety disorder - defined by a pervasive fear of social interactions - is associated with several cognitive distortions that facilitate the disorder. The broad objective of the proposed research is to evaluate self-regulatory depletion as one mechanism underlying the cognitive concomitants of social anxiety. It is contended that social interactions require a great deal of vigilance for the socially anxious, which depletes their self-regulatory system. Without sufficient self-regulatory resources, the socially anxious are vulnerable to cognitive distortions like over-attention to social threats and rumination. Five studies are proposed to examine two specific aims. The first aim is to demonstrate that self-regulatory depletion occurs in the socially anxious following social interaction. Study 1 will assess the general relationship between social anxiety and depletion. It is expected to show that, in the absence of social interaction, the socially anxious have comparable self-regulatory systems to non-anxious controls. Study 2 will measure self-regulatory among participants with a diagnosis of social phobia and among non-anxious controls. This study will also manipulate whether the participants have engaged in a social interaction. Study 3 uses a group interaction paradigm to assess whether interaction partners can perceive self-regulatory depletion in the socially anxious. The second aim is to demonstrate that self-regulatory depletion mediates the relationship between social anxiety and distortions in post-interaction processing. Study 4 will analyze the latency times of socially anxious and non-anxious controls when they interpret the meaning of a series of homographs (i.e., words that have multiple meanings). Finally, Study 5 will use a naturalistic methodology to assess whether self-regulatory depletion following social interactions promotes rumination among the socially anxious. Social anxiety disorder is a growing concern for public health because of the burden it places on both sufferers and the managed care system as a whole. The present research explores self-regulatory depletion (i.e., mental fatigue) as one explanation for negative thought processes that underlie social anxiety. It is expected that this research will expand understanding of social anxiety and inform future treatment models.

描述（由申请人提供）：社交焦虑症 - 由对社交互动的普遍恐惧定义 - 与几种促进该疾病的认知扭曲有关。拟议的研究的广泛目标是评估自我调节性耗竭，这是社交焦虑的认知伴随的一种机制。有人认为，社会互动需要对社会焦虑的谨慎行事，这会耗尽其自我调节系统。没有足够的自我调节资源，社会焦虑就容易受到认知扭曲的影响，例如过度注意社会威胁和反省。提出了五项研究以检查两个具体目标。第一个目的是证明自我调节性耗竭发生在社会互动后的社会焦虑中。研究1将评估社交焦虑与耗尽之间的一般关系。预计将表明，在没有社会互动的情况下，社会焦虑的自我调节系统与非焦虑的控制。研究2将衡量具有社会恐惧症和非焦虑对照组中的参与者之间的自我调节。这项研究还将操纵参与者是否从事社交互动。研究3使用群体相互作用范式来评估相互作用伙伴是否可以感知社会焦虑的自我调节耗竭。第二个目的是证明自我调节性耗竭介导了社交焦虑与交互后处理中的扭曲之间的关系。研究4将分析社会上焦虑和非焦虑控制的潜伏时间，当它们解释一系列同谱的含义（即具有多种含义的单词）时。最后，研究5将使用自然主义方法来评估社交互动后自我调节的耗竭是否促进了社会焦虑的反省。社交焦虑症是对公共卫生的日益关注，因为它承担了患者和整个托管护理系统的负担。本研究探讨了自我调节的耗竭（即心理疲劳），这是对社交焦虑的负面思维过程的一种解释。预计这项研究将扩大对社交焦虑的理解并为未来的治疗模式提供信息。