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

  • LIU Xi-tong ,
  • WANG Zhen ,
  • XIAO Ze-ping
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  • Division of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China

Online 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.

Cite this article

LIU Xi-tong , WANG Zhen , XIAO Ze-ping . Studies about the influence of self-focused attention on social anxiety disorder and other mental disorders[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Medical Science), 2018 , 38(8) : 996 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8115.2018.08.023

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