›› 2018, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (8): 996-.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8115.2018.08.023

• Review • Previous Articles    

Studies about the influence of self-focused attention on social anxiety disorder and other mental disorders

LIU Xi-tong, WANG Zhen, XIAO Ze-ping   

  1. Division of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
  • Online:2018-08-28 Published:2018-09-11
  • Supported by:
    Shanghai Municipal Education Commission—Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Support, 20161321

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.

Key words: social anxiety, mental disorders, self-focused attention, attentional bias

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