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  • Anticipatory processing in social anxiety: Investigation using attentional control theory

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    Sluis, Rachel A
    Boschen, Mark J
    Neumann, David L
    Murphy, Karen
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    Murphy, Karen A.
    Neumann, David L.
    Boschen, Mark J.
    Year published
    2017
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    Background and Objectives: Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) emphasize anticipatory processing as a prominent maintaining factor occurring before social-evaluative events. While anticipatory processing is a maladaptive process, the cognitive mechanisms that underlie ineffective control of attention are still unclear. The present study tested predictions derived from attentional control theory in a sample of undergraduate students high and low on social anxiety symptoms. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to either engage in anticipatory processing prior to a threat of a speech task or a control ...
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    Background and Objectives: Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) emphasize anticipatory processing as a prominent maintaining factor occurring before social-evaluative events. While anticipatory processing is a maladaptive process, the cognitive mechanisms that underlie ineffective control of attention are still unclear. The present study tested predictions derived from attentional control theory in a sample of undergraduate students high and low on social anxiety symptoms. Methods: Participants were randomly assigned to either engage in anticipatory processing prior to a threat of a speech task or a control condition with no social evaluative threat. After completing a series of questionnaires, participants performed pro-saccades and antisaccades in response to peripherally presented facial expressions presented in either single-task or mixed-task blocks. Results: Correct antisaccade latencies were longer than correct pro-saccade latencies in-line with attentional control theory. High socially anxious individuals who anticipated did not exhibit impairment on the inhibition and shifting functions compared to high socially anxious individuals who did not anticipate or low socially anxious individuals in either the anticipatory or control condition. Low socially anxious individuals who anticipated exhibited shorter antisaccade latencies and a switch benefit compared to low socially anxious individuals in the control condition. Limitations: The study used an analogue sample; however findings from analogue samples are generally consistent with clinical samples. Conclusions: The findings suggest that social threat induced anticipatory processing facilitates executive functioning for low socially anxious individuals when anticipating a social-evaluative situation.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
    Volume
    57
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.05.009
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    © 2017 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Psychology
    Clinical and health psychology
    Clinical psychology
    Cognition
    Biological psychology
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/340877
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