Models of social anxiety emphasize anticipatory processing (AP) and post-event processing (PEP) as repetitive negative thinking (RNT) processes that occur before and after social-evaluative events, respectively. Both AP and PEP have been implicated as maladaptive processes which maintain social anxiety. Accordingly, a common vulnerability, such as poor attentional control, may serve to maintain both. The present research included two separate samples to investigate the relationship between attentional control and AP (Sample 1) and PEP (Sample 2). Participants (n = 49 for Sample 1; n = 35 for Sample 2) completed self-report measures of social anxiety, AP or PEP, attentional control, and trait anxiety. Poorer total attentional control was associated with social anxiety in both samples. In addition, attentional control total and attentional shifting were negatively associated with PEP (Sample 2) but not with AP (Sample 1). Mediation modeling suggested that trait anxiety mediated the relationship between total attentional control and PEP. The findings suggest that attentional control plays a role in the regulation of emotion, such as anxiety, and RNT processes, such as PEP, but not AP.

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注意控制与社交焦虑的核心认知维持因子相关

社交焦虑模型强调预期处理（AP）和事件后处理（PEP）作为分别在社交评估事件之前和之后发生的重复性负面思维（RNT）过程。AP和PEP都被认为是维持社交焦虑的不良适应过程。因此，一个常见的漏洞（例如注意力控制不佳）可能会同时维护这两个漏洞。本研究包括两个单独的样本，以研究注意力控制与AP（样本1）和PEP（样本2）之间的关系。参加者（样本1，n = 49；样本2，n = 35）完成了社交焦虑，AP或PEP，注意力控制和特质焦虑的自我报告测量。在两个样本中，总注意力控制不佳与社交焦虑有关。此外，注意控制的总和注意转移与PEP（样本2）负相关，而与AP（样本1）无负相关。中介模型表明，特质焦虑介导了总注意力控制与PEP之间的关系。研究结果表明，注意力控制在情绪调节（例如焦虑）和RNT过程（例如PEP）中起作用，而在AP中则没有。