Most prior studies have examined the time course of anxiety leading up to a public speech over a relatively narrow time window. The present study examined this time course over a longer time window within a naturalistic setting of a classroom assignment. A major purpose of the study was to examine the potential moderating effects of the looming cognitive style (LCS, Riskind, Williams, Gessner, Chrosniak, & Cortina, 2000), which assesses cognitive tendencies to perceive ambiguous threats as rapidly escalating and approaching. More specifically, we assessed the time course of anxiety and threat thoughts of 93 college students during a three-week period prior to giving an assigned public speech. Both threat thoughts and anxiety decreased as the day of the speech approached, although anxiety rebounded just before the speech itself. Importantly, the social looming scale interacted with the time course and seemed to moderate the course of anxiety changes. This revealed that it was primarily the participants who...

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即将来临的认知方式和时程的临近对预期焦虑的影响

先前的大多数研究都研究了在相对狭窄的时间范围内导致公开演讲的焦虑情绪的时程。本研究在课堂作业的自然环境中，在较长的时间范围内检查了该时间课程。该研究的主要目的是检验即将出现的认知方式的潜在调节作用（LCS，Riskind，Williams，Gessner，Chrosniak和Cortina，2000），该方法评估了认知倾向，以识别模棱两可的威胁并迅速升级和接近。更具体地说，我们在进行公开演讲之前的三周时间内评估了93名大学生的焦虑和威胁思想的时程。随着演讲日的临近，威胁的思想和焦虑都减少了，尽管焦虑在演讲本身之前反弹了。重要的，社会迫在眉睫的规模与时间进程相互作用，似乎缓和了焦虑变化的进程。这表明主要是参与者...