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Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety.
Emotion ( IF 5.564 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 , DOI: 10.1037/emo0000594
Anuja Ng , Peter F. Lovibond

Future-directed intentions elicit emotional changes that may affect behavioral performance. We have previously shown that avoidance intentions can elicit a reduction in anxiety (Ng & Lovibond, 2017). In the present experiment, we manipulated within-participant self-efficacy for an avoidance behavior to determine whether self-efficacy moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety. Anxiety was indexed through skin conductance response and self-report. Participants learned that certain stimuli signaled an aversive electric shock, which they could avoid by performing an easy task or a hard task. Participants had relatively high self-efficacy for the easy task and low self-efficacy for the hard task. Results indicated that on trials when participants intended to avoid the shock, they experienced significantly greater reductions in anxiety when they had to perform the easy task compared with the hard task. We conclude that self-efficacy for avoidance behavior moderates the relationship between avoidance intentions and anxiety. In situations in which avoiding a harmful outcome is an adaptive response, it may be important to increase self-efficacy for avoidance behaviors from the intention-formation stage itself. If that occurs, the reinforcing reductions in anxiety may reaffirm the intention and increase its temporal stability, thereby increasing the likelihood of behavioral performance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译:

自我效能调节了回避意向与焦虑之间的关系。

面向未来的意图会引发可能影响行为表现的情绪变化。先前我们已经表明,避免意愿可以减轻焦虑感(Ng&Lovibond,2017)。在本实验中,我们对参与者的回避行为进行自我效能控制,以确定自我效能是否缓解了回避意向与焦虑之间的关系。焦虑是通过皮肤电导反应和自我报告来确定的。参与者了解到,某些刺激信号表示厌恶性电击,可以通过执行简单任务或艰巨任务来避免。参与者对简单任务的自我效能较高,而对困难任务的自我效能较低。结果表明,在试验中,当参与者希望避免电击时,与艰苦的工作相比,当他们必须执行简单的任务时,他们的焦虑感有了明显的减轻。我们得出的结论是,回避行为的自我效能调节了回避意向与焦虑之间的关系。在避免有害结果是一种适应性反应的情况下,从意图形成阶段本身提高避免行为的自我效能可能很重要。如果发生这种情况,则焦虑的增强减少可能会再次证实该意图并增加其时间稳定性,从而增加行为表现的可能性。(PsycINFO数据库记录(c)2019 APA,保留所有权利)。我们得出的结论是,回避行为的自我效能调节了回避意向与焦虑之间的关系。在避免有害结果是一种适应性反应的情况下,从意图形成阶段本身提高避免行为的自我效能可能很重要。如果发生这种情况,则焦虑的增强减少可能会再次证实该意图并增加其时间稳定性,从而增加行为表现的可能性。(PsycINFO数据库记录(c)2019 APA,保留所有权利)。我们得出的结论是,回避行为的自我效能调节了回避意向与焦虑之间的关系。在避免有害结果是一种适应性反应的情况下,从意图形成阶段本身提高避免行为的自我效能可能很重要。如果发生这种情况,则焦虑的增强减少可能会再次证实该意图并增加其时间稳定性,从而增加行为表现的可能性。(PsycINFO数据库记录(c)2019 APA,保留所有权利)。焦虑的增强减少可能会再次确认意图并增加其时间稳定性,从而增加行为表现的可能性。(PsycINFO数据库记录(c)2019 APA,保留所有权利)。焦虑的增强减少可能会再次确认意图并增加其时间稳定性,从而增加行为表现的可能性。(PsycINFO数据库记录(c)2019 APA,保留所有权利)。
更新日期:2020-09-01
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