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The Role of Mental Imagery on Approach Motivation and Behavioral Engagement in Social Anxiety

NCT07009444 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 136

Last updated 2026-01-09

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Summary

Efficacy of an online intervention aimed at enhancing both approach motivation and behavioral engagement in facing anxiety-provoking social situations among individuals with heightened social anxiety is investigated. Upon receiving psychoeducation, participants will either undergo a prospective mental-imagery task or no additional task. The intervention's efficacy will be assessed by ratings of experienced and expected pleasure, approach motivation as well as self-reported engagement with feared situation one week later.

Conditions

  • Social Anxiety
  • Social Phobia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychoeducation

Providing information about social anxiety, role of safety and avoidance behaviors in maintaining social anxiety, rationale for exposure to feared social situations

BEHAVIORAL

Prospective Mental Imagery

A standard imagination script is recounted in which participants have successfully mastered the socially feared situation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-18
Primary Completion
2023-11-25
Completion
2023-11-25

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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