Studies about the influence of self-focused attention on social anxiety disorder and other mental disorders
10.3969/j.issn.1674-8115.2018.08.023
- Author:
Xi-Tong LIU
1
Author Information
1. Division of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Attentional bias;
Mental disorders;
Self-focused attention;
Social anxiety
- From:
Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Medical Science)
2018;38(8):996-1000
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Self-focused attention is an attentional bias about one's own information that produces in the organism. Social anxiety patients' self-focused attention usually focuses on the ideas, emotions and behaviors generated in social occasion, which is a negative cognitive processing tendency that leads to the maintenance of anxiety symptoms. This paper reviewed the literatures of the theories and the research method of self-focused attention, and the effects of self-focused attention on social anxiety disorder and other mental diseases, so as to provide new ideas for the research of mechanisms such as social anxiety disorder.
