Research On Free Association Content of Social Anxiety from Psychology of Habit Perspective

• Main Authors: HSU HAO WEI, 許皓瑋
• Other Authors: 柯永河
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14764057777167837340

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 臨床心理學系碩士班 === 97 === In Word Free-Association Tests, subjects are expected to associate freely to a stimulus word; on the other hand, the main concerns of Habit Psychology are how the relationship between a stimulus and a response, is cultivated, matained, and eliminated. Therefore, it is logically quiet appropriate to exame or study the phoenamena of free association from the view point of Habit Psychology.In the past, Beck（1976）proposed a content specificity hypothesis, suggesting that patients’uniqe cognitive theme would reflects his or her nature of psychopathology. The results of Williams et al.(1988, 1997)also illustrated that people with anxiety disorders have attentional bias. Based on those theories, the present study tries to use subjects with social anxiety to find how the psychopathology of those subjects would affect on their association content of free association test used in the present study. It is the hope of the author that the finding of this study would be able to provide a foundation of the word association tests, becoming a useful technique to identify different patients with different disorders. From among 297 undergraduate students, high social anxiety trend (N=30) and low social anxiety trend (N=32) (22 male and 40 female) were selected to be the subjects, by revised Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) , and then, the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is used to assure the selected subjects are not severely depressed. After that, we ask those selected subjects to partaicipate Word Free-Associatoin Test. The following are the obtained results :(1)Social anxiety factor is significantly associate to the type of association response; (2)Subjects with high social anxiety are significantly inclined to make more responses than the low social anxiety subjects;(3)High social anxiety group would have more responses with negative affects;(4)High social anxiety group would have more affect responses(in terms of Habit Psychology response classification system), and low social anxiety group would have more beheavior, cognition, and interpersonal responses(in terms of Habit Psychology response classification system).In addition , we find females have more responses on the Free-Word Association Test, more negative responses, and more affect responds than males. Further, males have more cognition responses (in terms of Habit Psychology response classification system) than female. Besides, there are 6 stimulus words that high social anxiety group subjects are inclined to make more habitual association responses, and the propotion of such response is statistically significant high. At the final part of present report, the participants’characteristic, the limitation in the number of word stimulus used, and the other related issues were discussed.