2001/01/01 by Lars‐Gunnar Lundh, Lars‐Göran Öst · 1 citation
Psychology · #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Perfectionism (psychology) #Psychology #Social anxiety #Stroop effect #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Anxiety #Cognitive bias #Psychotherapist #Psychiatry
paper · doi:10.1080/02845710117841
openalex publication_date 2001/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Attentional bias for threat words (as measured by the emotional Stroop task), selfconsciousness and perfectionism was studied in 24 patients with social phobia before and after cognitive-behaviour treatment. A total of 18 (75%) of the patients were classified as treatment responders on the basis of reduced scores for social anxiety. The treatment responders showed a significant reduction in attentional bias for social threat words, in public self-consciousness and in perfectionism. The non-responders showed an equal reduction in perfectionism; as they had a much higher level of perfectionism before treatment, however, their change only amounted to a lowering of their level of perfectionism to the level that characterized the treatment responders before treatment. The treatment responders, on the other hand, reduced their level of perfectionism to that of non-clinical samples.