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KMID : 0389420220300040234
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Korean Journal of Stress Research
2022 Volume.30 No. 4 p.234 ~ p.243
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The Relation between Social Anxiety, Self-Focused Attention and State Anxiety: The Moderated Mediation Effect of the Self-image on a Screen
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Um Tae-Ho
Kim Mirihae
Kim Jung-Ho
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Abstract
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Background: This study examined how seeing one’s own image during video communication affects the cognitive process of social anxiety.
Methods: Fifty-two university students were recruited and assessed for social anxiety and dispositional self-focused attention. They were randomly assigned to different exposure and size settings of self-images on a screen (none, middle, big). Subsequently, a simulated video interview was conducted. During the experiment, changes in state anxiety (subjective anxiety, heart rate) and state self-focused attention were assessed.
Results: First, self-focused attention mediated the effect of social anxiety on subjective anxiety. Second, the mediation effect of state self-focused attention on social anxiety’s influence on subjective anxiety was not moderated by the exposure and size of the self-image on the screen. Third, the mediation effect of dispositional self-focused attention on social anxiety’s influence on subjective anxiety was moderated by the exposure and size of the self-image on the screen. The moderated mediation effects of the exposure and size of the self-image on the screen were significant for middle and big sizes.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that dispositional self-focused attention?a cognitive characteristic of social anxiety?can interact with the exposure and size of a self-image on a screen, causing higher anxiety.
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KEYWORD
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Social anxiety, State anxiety, Self-focused attention, Self-image on a screen, Video-mediated communication
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