This study examined several aspects of the anxiety program described in the
Clark and Wells' (1995; Clark, 2001) cognitive model of social phobia, and provided
information about the relationship between some of these variables. This study also
examined the effect of social appraisals on cognition, affect, and self-protection.
Positive and negative interpersonal appraisals were manipulated in 42 patients with
social phobia and 42 community control participants. Participants then engaged in a
social interaction with a confederate based on the reciprocity self-disclosure
paradigm. Participants completed measures of cognitive appraisal, focus of
attention, recall, affect, and self-disclosure. Personnel completed similar measures.
Results revealed that, consistent with the cognitive model, individuals with social
phobia displayed more self-focused attention, more negative affect, and more selfprotective
behaviours, i.e. were less self-disclosive, than non-phobic control
participants. There were no differences on the recall measure. The results
suggested that it was possible to manipulate social appraisals. Interestingly, the
largest discrepancy between participants with social phobia and controls occurred
for self-disclosure in the positive social appraisal condition. The results also
provided some clarification about the temporal sequence among the components of
the anxiety program, and the role of self-focused attention in social phobia.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/12779 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Mellings, Tanna Marlane Boucher |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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