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Social Anxiety and Interpretation Bias of Ambiguous Social Situations

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2007, v.12 no.1, pp.95-110
https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2007.12.1.006




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Abstract

The present study investigated the interpretation of social anxiety regarding ambiguous social situations using a lexical decision task. In order to examine this, with SADS (Social Avoidance and Distress Scale) of 316 college students high socially anxious group (n=21)and low socially anxious group (n=25) were selected for the experiment. Participants were asked to make a decision as soon as possible whether the probe was a word or non-word regarding to the target word which was presented after priming stimulus(ambiguous social situation or control one). As a result, high socially anxious participants responded faster to the probe consistent with threatening meaning in an ambiguous context than in the control context, whereas low socially anxious group did not differ in the response latency across the context. As to the probes with non-threatening meaning, both groups all responded faster in an ambiguous condition than in a control context. It was found that high socially anxious participants tended to interpret ambiguous social situations in a more threatening way compared to the low socially anxious group, nevertheless the evidence could not tell strongly that socially anxious people showed a bias favoring threatening interpretation. In addition, Hirsch and Mathews(2000)'position that socially anxious people did not make any kind of on-line interpretation was not supported. The discussion of the present study and suggestions for the future research were presented.

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사회불안, 모호한 사회적 상황, 해석편향, social anxiety, ambiguous social situation, interpretation bias

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