Effects of video playback of a person on his self-concept

Characteristics Related to Centrality of Spiritual Self-Identity

In 1994, Pedersen developed a model of centrality of self-identity consisting of four self-identity factors. These factors, found to vary in centrality from person to person, were Spiritual, Personal/Social, Family, and Identifications. The implications of the centrality of Spiritual identity were investigated. It was hypothesized that the centrality of Spiritual identity would differ according to differences in Physical Health, Self-esteem, Neuroticism, and Extraversion. The Who Am I? measure of centrality of self-identity, a semantic differential measure of self-esteem, and the Maudsley Personality Inventory were administered to 134 participants. Groups who scored higher on Physical Health and on Self-esteem and lower on Neuroticism had more central Spiritual self-identity scores. Differences involving Extraversion were not significant.

The moderated effects of video feedback for social anxiety disorder

Despite initially positive results, video feedback for social anxiety has never been shown to reduce social anxiety in a controlled experiment with diagnosed participants, and only once with undiagnosed participants. Previous studies arguably did not detect such an effect because of limited assessment of anxiety and potential moderators. We tested video feedback with cognitive preparation among treatment-seeking participants with a primary diagnosis of social anxiety disorder. In Session 1, participants gave an extemporaneous speech and either received the intervention or not. In Session 2, 6-14 days later, participants gave a second extemporaneous speech. The intervention improved self-perception of performance, particularly for those participants with the most unrealistically negative impressions of their performance (i.e., high self-observer discrepancy). In addition, the intervention reduced anticipatory anxiety for the second speech for participants with high self-observer discrepancy. These findings extend previous results regarding video feedback and suggest that the intervention may be useful for people with social anxiety disorder and higher self-observer discrepancies for a specific task.