According to Clark and Wells’ cognitive model (Clark and Wells, 1995), social anxiety is maintained by both a negative self-image and self-focused attention (SFA). Although these maintaining factors were investigated extensively in previous studies, the direction of this relationship remains unclear, and so far, few studies have investigated self-image and SFA together within a current social interaction situation.

The aim of this experiment is to investigate the influence of a negative versus positive self-image on social anxiety and on SFA during a social interaction.

High (n = 27) and low (n = 36) socially anxious participants, holding a manipulated negative versus positive self-image in mind, had a real-time video conversation with a confederate. Social anxiety, SFA and state anxiety before and during the conversation were measured with questionnaires.

An interaction between negative self-image and social anxiety showed that high socially anxious individuals with a negative self-image in mind were more anxious than those with a positive self-image in mind during the conversation. They were also more anxious compared with low socially anxious individuals. Furthermore, high socially anxious individuals reported higher SFA; however, SFA was not affected by negative or positive self-image.

The present results confirm once again the strong influence of self-image and SFA on social anxiety, highlighting that a negative self-image has more impact on socially anxious individuals. Moreover, the present results suggest that SFA is not necessarily affected by a negative self-image, indicating that therapies should focus on both.

根据克拉克和威尔斯的认知模型（克拉克和威尔斯，1995），社交焦虑是由消极的自我形象和自我关注的注意力（SFA）共同维持的。尽管在先前的研究中对这些维持因素进行了广泛的研究，但这种关系的方向仍不清楚，到目前为止，很少有研究在当前的社会互动情况下同时研究自我形象和 SFA。

本实验的目的是研究消极与积极的自我形象对社交焦虑和社交互动过程中 SFA 的影响。

高 ( n = 27) 和低 ( n = 36) 社交焦虑的参与者，牢记被操纵的消极与积极的自我形象，与同盟者进行了实时视频对话。用问卷测量谈话前后的社交焦虑、SFA 和状态焦虑。

负面自我形象与社交焦虑之间的交互作用表明，在谈话中，具有负面自我形象的高度社交焦虑个体比具有正面自我形象的人更焦虑。与社交焦虑程度低的人相比，他们也更焦虑。此外，高度社交焦虑的个体报告的 SFA 更高；然而，SFA 不受负面或正面自我形象的影响。

目前的结果再次证实了自我形象和 SFA 对社交焦虑的强烈影响，强调负面的自我形象对社交焦虑个体的影响更大。此外，目前的结果表明，SFA 不一定会受到负面自我形象的影响，这表明治疗应该同时关注两者。