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KMID : 0981220150150030519
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2015 Volume.15 No. 3 p.519 ~ p.539
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Self-Consciousness and Empathy of Socially Anxious People
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Kim Hwan
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Abstract
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Up to date, anxiety study tried to explain how anxiety affected social cognitive processes such as perspective taking or empathy. Anxiety is known to reduce executive function and thereby interfere with perspective taking. Then how is social anxiety? Social anxiety could affect negatively on empathy just as anxiety does, but it is also possible to have a positive effect on empathy by help of its close relationship with public self-consciousness. To answer this question, this study collected and analyzed data set of self-consciousness, social anxiety, empathic ability, and dysfunctional focused-attention from 174 online university students. Correlation analysis showed that social anxiety negatively correlated with cognitive empathy but did not correlate with emotional empathy. Public self-consciousness positively correlated with emotional empathy but did not correlate with cognitive empathy. Dysfunctional focused-attention positively correlated with social anxiety, negatively correlated with cognitive empathy, and did not correlate with emotional empathy. Regression analysis including social anxiety, public self-consciousness and dysfunctional focused-attention as predicting variables showed that public self-consciousness had positive effect and dysfunctional focused-attention had negative effect on cognitive empathy, and social anxiety had no significant effect on cognitive empathy. Another regression analysis with same predicting variables showed that only public self-consciousness had significant effect on emotional empathy. Lastly, the significance and limitation of this study are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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social anxiety, public self-consciousness, cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, focused-attention
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