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Social Anxiety and Social Facilitation

Psychological Reports, 1979
A measure of social anxiety was used to predict whether 40 college students' performance on a simple task would be socially facilitated or impaired by the presence of an audience.
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Social anxiety in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research, 1994
The relationship between social anxiety and positive and negative symptomatology in schizophrenia was investigated. Thirty eight inpatients with schizophrenia completed a battery of self-report measures of anxiety, a modified Stroop task, and an unstructured role play.
Jodi Kucera, William D. Spaulding, Debra A. Hope, David L. Penn   +3 more
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Socialization of Social Anxiety in Adolescent Crowds

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2011
In this study, we looked at whether social anxiety is socialized, or influenced by peers' social anxiety, more in some peer crowds than others. Adolescents in crowds with eye-catching appearances such as Goths and Punks (here termed Radical), were compared with three comparison groups. Using data from 796 adolescents (353 girls and 443 boys; M ( age ) =
Maarten van Zalk, Nejra Van Zalk, Margaret Kerr   +2 more
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Anxiety in Children and Social Status

Child Development, 1956
There have been several studies (e.g., I, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 21) since 1937 dealing with the connection between adjustment and sociometric status in child populations. All have provided at least some support for the hypothesis of a moderate positive relationship between the two ("better adjusted" children are more popular), although Northway and
Alfred Castaneda, David S. Palermo, Boyd R. McCandless   +2 more
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Encoding processes in social anxiety

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2004
According to current theories, memory processes play an important role in the maintenance of social fears. However, the empirical evidence regarding memory processes in social anxiety is controversial, and little is known about specific memory processes, such as encoding.
Heinrichs, Nina, Hofmann, Stefan G
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Social Anxiety in Children with Anxiety Disorders: Relation with Social and Emotional Functioning

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1998
Investigated the psychometric properties of the Social Anxiety Scale for children-Revised (SASC-R) as well as relations between social anxiety and children's social and emotional functioning. Participants were a clinic sample of children, ages 6-11 with anxiety disorders (N = 154) who completed the SASC-R. For a subset of these children, parent ratings
Golda S. Ginsburg, Annette M. La Greca, Wendy K. Silverman   +2 more
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Differentiating symptoms of social anxiety and depression in adults with social anxiety disorder

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2005
Although studies have suggested a strong overlap between social anxiety disorder and depression, this is the first study to examine the ability of commonly used measures to differentiate symptoms of these disorders in a sample of clients with social anxiety disorder.
Brandon E. Gibb, Richard G. Heimberg, Meredith E. Coles   +2 more
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Intolerance of uncertainty and social anxiety

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2009
Research has shown that intolerance of uncertainty (IU)--the tendency to react negatively to situations that are uncertain--is involved in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). There is uncertainty about the specificity of IU. Some studies have shown that IU is specific for GAD.
Albert Reijntjes, Paul A. Boelen
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Illusory correlation and social anxiety

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1998
An illusory correlation (IC) experiment examined the presence of a phobia-relevant covariation bias in the context of social anxiety. Low (n = 28) and high (n = 32) social anxious women were shown a series of slides comprising pictures of angry, happy and neutral faces which were randomly paired with either a shock, a siren or nothing.
de Jong, P.J., Boegels, S., Kindt, M., Merckelbach, H.   +3 more
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Anxiety and Social Explanation: Some Anxieties about Anxiety

Journal of Social History, 1999
Anxiety is invoked as an explanatory device in a wide variety of historical and sociological writing. The general form of such accounts is that the occurrence and timing of some social phenomena is explained by reference to the presence of some elevated state of anxiety which elicits social or political responses by an identifiable group of social ...
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