Videotaped experiments to drop safety behaviors and self-focused attention for patients with social anxiety disorder: Do they change subjective and objective evaluations of anxiety and performance?

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• 作者：Toshi A. Furukawa ; Junwen Chen ; Norio Watanabe ; Yumi Nakano ; Tetsuji Ietsugu ; Sei Ogawa ; Tadashi Funayama ; Yumiko Noda
• 刊名：Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：June 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：40
• 期：2
• 页码：202-210
• 全文大小：198 K

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Safety behavior (SB) and self-focused attention (SFA) have been posited as important maintenance factors in the cognitive model of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The present study reports the results of experiments to drop SB and SFA among clinically diagnosed patients with SAD employing their own idiosyncratic anxiety-provoking situations. The ratings for observable anxiety, belief in feared outcome and overall performance were better for role plays without SB and SFA than for role plays with them. The degree of drop in SFA predicted drop in observable anxiety and belief in feared outcome. Dropping SB and SFA, however, was unable to completely correct the cognitive distortion because the subjective ratings were still significantly worse than the objective ratings.