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| Content Provider | frontiers |
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| Author | Wechsler, Theresa F. Pfaller, Michael Eickels, Rahel E. van Schulz, Luise H. Mühlberger, Andreas |
| Abstract | Background. Enhanced self-focused attention plays a central role in the maintenance and treatment of Social Anxiety and is targeted in contemporary cognitive-behavioral therapy. Actual developments use Virtual Reality (VR) for behavioral training. However, no VR attention training combining exposure to public speaking with shifting attention from self-focus to external focus has been investigated, and no experimental evidence exists on different kinds of external cues as targets of attention. Therefore, we investigated the effects of an attention training during public speaking in VR, and examined differential effects of an external focus on non-social versus social stimuli. Methods. In this randomized-controlled study, highly socially anxious participants were instructed to either focus on objects or the audience within a virtual speech task. We assessed effects on affective reactions, self-perception, and attentional processes during a speech task as well as general Social Anxiety using subjective, physiological, and eye tracking measures. Repeated measures ANOVAs were calculated to detect changes from pre-test to post-test over both groups, and time x group interaction effects. Results. Within the analysis sample (n=41), anxiety during public speaking and fear of negative evaluation significantly decreased, with no significant differences between groups. No significant time effect, but a significant time x group effect was found for the looking time proportion on the audience members’ heads. Follow up tests confirmed a significant increase in the social focus, and a significant decrease in the non-social focus group. For other variables, except external focus and fear of public speaking, significant improvements were found over both groups. Positive affect during public speaking showed a significant time x group effect, with a significant increase in the social focus, and no significant change in the non-social focus group. Conclusion. Our findings suggest that attention training to reduce self-focus can be successfully conducted in VR. Both training versions showed positive short-term effects in highly socially anxious, with particular advantages of an external social focus concerning eye contact to the audience and positive affect. Further research should investigate whether social focus is even more advantageous long-term, and if reinterpretations of dysfunctional beliefs could be achieved by not avoiding social cues. |
| ISSN | 16640640 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.751272 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychiatry |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2021-12-14 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Public speaking Self-focused attention Cognitive behavioral therapy Eye tracking Exposure therapy Social anxiety Virtual reality Attention training |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychiatry and Mental Health |
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