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KMID : 0981220130130010107
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2013 Volume.13 No. 1 p.107 ~ p.131
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The Effects of positive and negative self imagery on the retrieval of autobiographical memories in social anxiety disorder
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Yoon Hyae-Young
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Abstract
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In Rapee and Heimberg (1997)’s cognitive models of social anxiety disorder, the mental representation of self’ plays a role as key psychological factor that maintains social anxiety. They argue that mental representations of the self draw on information retrieved from long-term memory as well as incorporating information from more immediate sources such as physiological feedback. This study investigate differences between socially anxious and non-anxious individuals in the recall of autobiographical memories.. Next, we examined the effect of holding a positive or a negative image in mind during a newspaper reading task on the retrieval of autobiographical memories. Forty three social anxiety patients and forty nine normal control participants performed a standard autobiographical memory task (AMT), which used positive and negative cue word. Participants performed the AMT three times, baseline AMT, once after reading a newspaper holding a positive image and once while holding a negative image. And then, we compared the characteristics of autobiographical memory (response latency and specificity) in social anxiety patients and normal control groups. The difference between retrieval latencies for positive and negative memories just failed to reach significance in socially anxiety patients and normal control groups. But there is a tendency that socially anxious groups were slower to retrieve memories in response to cue words compared to normal control groups. In the negative imagery condition, patients were significant more specific to retrieve memories to positive and negative cure words. But normal participants were significant less specific to retrieve memories to both words. These results suggested that working with the negative imagery used to influence on retrieval of autobiographical memory for social anxiety disorder. We discussed the implications and potential clinical relevance of social anxiety disorder’s tendency of retrieval of long term memory based on negative self image.
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KEYWORD
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social anxiety disorder, autobiographical memory, positive/negative image induction, self-image
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