scholarly journals The role of stress reactivity in the long-term persistence of adolescent social anxiety symptoms

2017 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Nelemans ◽  
W.W. Hale III ◽  
S.J.T. Branje ◽  
P.A.C. van Lier ◽  
H.M. Koot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms

scholarly journals Longitudinal associations between social anxiety symptoms and cannabis use throughout adolescence: the role of peer involvement

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 483-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie A. Nelemans ◽  
William W. Hale ◽  
Quinten A. W. Raaijmakers ◽  
Susan J. T. Branje ◽  
Pol A. C. van Lier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Peer Involvement ◽  
Longitudinal Associations

The Role of Shame and Self-Criticism in Social Anxiety: A Daily-Diary Study in a Nonclinical Sample

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gal Lazarus ◽  
Ben Shahar
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Daily Diary ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Nonclinical Sample ◽  
High Level

We sought to explore the daily association between shame and self-criticism, and the extent to which this association varies as a function of social anxiety symptoms. Fifty-nine undergraduate students completed a measure of social anxiety symptoms at a baseline meeting and then completed measures of shame experienced during significant social interactions and self-criticism following those interactions twice daily for 10 days. Social anxiety symptoms predicted more shame during daily social interactions and more self-criticism following them. Additionally, shame predicted subsequent self-criticism. This relationship was moderated by levels of social anxiety symptoms, such that those with higher levels of social anxiety symptoms exhibited high levels of self-criticism following daily social interactions characterized by both high and low shame, whereas those with lower levels of social anxiety symptoms showed high levels of self-criticism only after interactions with high levels of shame. These findings are consistent with the notion that self-criticism may serve as a regulatory coping method when experiencing shame, and that social anxiety difficulties are related to an inflexibly high level of self-criticism.

Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Linking Discrimination to Health: A Focus on Social Cognition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Brondolo ◽  
Irene V. Blair ◽  
Amandeep Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Stress Recovery ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Appraisal Processes

This chapter presents a theoretical framework that highlights the role of social cognition in mediating the effects of discrimination on health. This framework suggests that through alterations in schemas and appraisal processes, long-term discrimination increases the experienced frequency, intensity, and duration of threat exposure and concomitant distress. At the same time, the ability to recover from threat exposure may be impaired by the effects of discrimination on cognitive control processes that are necessary for modulating stress responses. Together, these processes may influence the ability to initiate and sustain health-promoting behavior, avoid health-impairing behavior, attenuate stress reactivity, and facilitate stress recovery. Through effects on social cognition, persistent exposure to discrimination may potentiate sustained dysregulation of psychophysiological systems responsible for maintaining health.

The Role of Sexual and Gender Identity in Long-Term Psychodynamic Therapy for Comorbid Social Anxiety and Depression in an Adolescent Female

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-327
Author(s):  
Gretchen Kurdziel ◽  
Leticia Y. Flores ◽  
Jenny Macfie
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Adolescent Female ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Social Discomfort ◽  
And Gender

Adolescence is a time of significant change with social, cognitive, and emotional alternations, and growth of autonomy and identity. This is a single clinical case study that uses long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy with an adolescent female diagnosed with comorbid social anxiety and persistent depression. The treatment initially focused on addressing the patient’s self-esteem, perfectionism, and self-criticism. During the treatment it was revealed that the patient’s sexual and gender identity contributed to social anxiety and depressive symptoms, and the therapy conceptualized the role of these identities as contributing to social discomfort which perpetuated her depressive symptoms. Through accepting her budding sexual and gender identity, the patient successfully became more comfortable in social settings which ultimately alleviated her depressive symptoms. This treatment highlights the unique nature of working with an adolescent apart of the sexual and gender minority, and how these identities contributed to her experience of social anxiety and depression.

Safety aid use and social anxiety symptoms: The mediating role of perceived control

2015 ◽  
Vol 228 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina J. Korte ◽  
Amanda S. Unruh ◽  
Mary E. Oglesby ◽  
Norman B. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Mediating Role

scholarly journals Relationship Between Parental Marital Conflict and Social Anxiety Symptoms of Chinese College Students: Mediation Effect of Attachment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aklilu A. Adare ◽  
Yuewen Zhang ◽  
Yaqi Hu ◽  
Zhenhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Peer Attachment ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Multiple Mediation

Social anxiety has been a common problem among college students and has an adverse impact on their adaptation outcomes. Among influential factors, parental marital conflict and attachment (parental and peer attachment) have been found to be related to social anxiety symptoms of college students; however, little is known how parental marital conflict and attachment jointly contribute to social anxiety symptoms of college students. The current study explored this issue. Self-reported questionnaires of perception of children of interparental conflict scale, inventory of parent and peer attachment, and the social interaction anxiety scale were administered to 707 undergraduate students (Mean age = 19.27, SD = 0.97). Results indicated that perceived parental marital conflict was positively correlated with social anxiety symptoms and was negatively associated with parental and peer attachment. Parental and peer attachments were negatively correlated with social anxiety symptoms. Mediation analyses indicated that perceived parental marital conflict exerted its indirect effect on social anxiety symptoms through a serial multiple mediation role of parental and peer attachment. The present findings highlight the serial multiple mediation role of parental and peer attachment in the relationship between perceived parental marital conflict and social anxiety symptoms of college students.

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