Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2022.2125961

Jiemiao Chen, Esther van den Bos, Julian D Karch, P Michiel Westenberg

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Abstract

Background: Social anxiety has long been related to reduced eye contact, and this feature is seen as a causal and a maintaining factor of social anxiety disorder. The present research adds to the literature by investigating the relationship between social anxiety and visual avoidance of faces in a reciprocal face-to-face conversation, while taking into account two aspects of conversations as potential moderating factors: conversational role and level of intimacy.

Method: Eighty-five female students (17-25 years) completed the Leibowitz Social Anxiety Scale and had a face-to-face getting-acquainted conversation with a female confederate. We alternated conversational role (talking versus listening) and manipulated intimacy of the topics (low versus high). Participants' gaze behavior was registered with Tobii eye-tracking glasses. Three dependent measures were extracted regarding fixations on the face of the confederate: total duration, proportion of fixations, and mean duration.

Results: The results revealed that higher levels of social anxiety were associated with reduced face gaze on all three measures. The relation with total fixation duration was stronger for low intimate topics. The relation with mean fixation duration was stronger during listening than during speaking.

Conclusion: The results highlight the importance of studying gaze behavior in a naturalistic social interaction.

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社交焦虑与在自然的社交互动中减少对脸部的凝视有关。

背景:长期以来，人们一直认为社交焦虑与目光接触减少有关，这一特征被视为社交焦虑障碍的原因和维持因素。本研究通过调查社交焦虑与面对面对话中回避人脸的关系，同时考虑到对话的两个方面作为潜在的调节因素:对话角色和亲密程度，为文献提供了补充。方法:85名女大学生(17 ~ 25岁)填写莱博维茨社交焦虑量表，并与一名女同伙进行面对面的熟悉交谈。我们交替着对话角色(说与听)，并操纵话题的亲密度(低与高)。参与者的凝视行为用Tobii眼动追踪眼镜记录下来。提取了关于注视被试面部的三个相关测量:总持续时间、注视比例和平均持续时间。结果:结果显示，在所有三项测试中，社交焦虑水平越高，注视面部的次数越少。低亲密话题与总注视时间的关系更强。听力与平均注视时间的关系强于口语。结论:研究结果强调了在自然社会互动中研究凝视行为的重要性。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.