scholarly journals Difficulty Disengaging Attention from Social Threat in Social Anxiety

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia D. Buckner ◽  
Jon K. Maner ◽  
Norman B. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Threat

SOCIAL ANXIETY, SELF-FOCUSED ATTENTION, AND THE DISCRIMINATION OF NEGATIVE, NEUTRAL AND POSITIVE AUDIENCE MEMBERS BY THEIR NON-VERBAL BEHAVIOURS

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Perowne ◽  
Warren Mansell
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Anxiety Group ◽  
Threat Cues ◽  
High Social Anxiety

Recent research indicates the apparent paradox that social anxiety may be associated with both self-focused attention and selective attention to external social threat cues. A naturalistic paradigm was designed to explore both processes. High and low socially anxious individuals were asked to make a speech to a monitor displaying six people whom they believed to be watching them live. Two audience members exhibited only positive behaviours, two only neutral ones and two only negative behaviours. In contrast to the low social anxiety group who selectively discriminated positive audience members, the high social anxiety group selectively discriminated the negative individuals, yet they were no more accurate at discriminating the negative behaviours the audience members had performed and they reported more self-focused attention than the low social anxiety group. The effects remained while covarying for differences in dysphoria. The results indicate that socially anxious individuals base their judgements of being disapproved by others on limited processing of their social environment.

scholarly journals The Role of Cognitive Factors in Childhood Social Anxiety: Social Threat Thoughts and Social Skills Perception

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rianne E. van Niekerk ◽  
Anke M. Klein ◽  
Esther Allart-van Dam ◽  
Jennifer L. Hudson ◽  
Mike Rinck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Social Threat

Do Social Threat Cognitions Decrease With School-Based CBT and Predict Treatment Outcome in Adolescents With Social Anxiety Disorder?

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Julie L. Ryan ◽  
Jeremy K. Fox ◽  
Sarah R. Lowe ◽  
Carrie Masia Warner
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Behavioral Treatment ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
School Based

Evidence suggests that Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is less responsive to cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) compared to other anxiety disorders. Therefore, exploring what might facilitate clinical benefit is essential. Social threat cognitions, characterized by exaggerated perceptions of negative evaluation by others, may be one important avenue to examine. The current study investigated whether youths' social threat cognitions decreased with Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a group, school-based CBT designed for SAD, and whether decreases predicted SAD severity and treatment response. Participants included 138 high school students with SAD randomly assigned to SASS, or a nonspecific school counseling intervention. SASS participants showed significantly decreased social threat cognitions at 5-month follow-up. Treatment responders had significantly greater reductions in social threat cognitions compared to nonresponders at post-intervention and follow-up. These findings suggest that social threat cognitions may be important to assess and monitor when treating youth with SAD.

Attention bias for social threat in youth with tic disorders: Links with tic severity and social anxiety

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-409
Author(s):  
Victoria Pile ◽  
Sally Robinson ◽  
Marta Topor ◽  
Tammy Hedderly ◽  
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Attention Bias ◽  
Tic Disorders ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Tic Severity

Attention to Positive and Negative Social-Evaluative Words: Investigating the Effects of Social Anxiety, Trait Anxiety and Social Threat

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Mansell ◽  
Anke Ehlers ◽  
David Clark ◽  
Yi-Ping Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Anxiety Trait

scholarly journals Temporal trends in attention disengagement from social threat as a function of social anxiety

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 101529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia L. McGlade ◽  
Michelle G. Craske ◽  
Andrea N. Niles
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Social Threat

Moral fixations: The role of moral integrity and social anxiety in the selective avoidance of social threat

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 51-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte F. Van Dillen ◽  
Dorien Enter ◽  
Leonie P.M. Peters ◽  
Wilco W. van Dijk ◽  
Mark Rotteveel
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Moral Integrity
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