文档介绍：Person. Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 955-958. 1995
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Self-concept, social anxiety, and interpersonal perception skills
Jonathan E. Schroeder
Department of Marketing, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, .
(Received 22 December 1994; received for publication 22 June 1995)
Summary-The Interpersonal Perception Task videotape provided a criterion variable to test hypotheses
about social information processing skills of socially anxious subjects. Results from 68 undergraduates show
negative correlations between both shyness social anxiety and nonverbal decoding scores, and positive
correlations between shyness and measures of test anxiety. Results are interpreted in light of cognitive
conceptions of social anxiety and its role in decoding munication.
INTRODUCTION
Social anxiety influences social behavior, information processing, and the self concept. Socially anxious people have been
shown to have lower self-esteem, nervous behaviors, loneliness, and self-upation (Cheek, 1979). Cognitive aspects of
social anxiety include anxious thoughts and worries, especially in situations calling upon social skills (Crazier, 1979). Anxious
self-upation often arouses negative emotions that interfere with information processing