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KMID : 0981220090090010039
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2009 Volume.9 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.55
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The Relationship Between Social Anxiety and Dispositional Self-Focused Attention
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Lee Ji-Young
Kwon Seok-Man
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Abstract
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Self-focused attention refers to focus on one’s own thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and appearance. It has been suggested to play a central role in maintaining and exacerbating social anxiety and social phobia. However, studies regarding the relationship of self-focused attention to social anxiety and social phobia by using the Private Self-Consciousness Scale showed inconsistent results. The reason is that self-focused attention contributes to the health and adaptation as well as the maladaptation such as anxiety and depression, and this duality of self-focused attention is reflected in the Pri SCS. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the relationship between social anxiety and dispositional self-focused attention, using the Scale for Dispositional Self-focused Attention in Social situation(SDSAS) which distinguishes two types of self-focused attention(Lee & Kwon, 2005). Study I explored the characteristics of the dispositional self-focused attention in high and low socially anxious individuals. Results indicated that high socially anxious individuals have defensive self-focused attention and low socially anxious individuals have nondefensive self-focused attention. Study Ⅱ was designed to evaluate the effects of dispositional self-focused attention on social anxiety symptoms in social situation. The results of the experiment indicated that during the interview, defensive self-focused attention group showed the most increase in anxiety and the most negative automatic thoughts and perceived their anxious behaviors exaggeratively compared to the evaluation of the interviewer. Finally, the implications and limitations of the study and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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SDSAS, Social anxiety, Self-focused attention, defensive self-focused attention, nondefensive self-focused attention, SDSAS
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