scholarly journals Friendless Adolescents: Do Perceptions of Social Threat Account for Their Internalizing Difficulties and Continued Friendlessness?

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah M. Lessard ◽  
Jaana Juvonen
Keyword(s):  
Social Threat ◽  
Internalizing Difficulties

Associations between collectivism and perception of social threat: a signal detection approach

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuong-Van Vu ◽  
Catrin Finkenauer ◽  
Lydia Krabbendam
Keyword(s):  
Signal Detection ◽  
Response Bias ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Threat Detection ◽  
Perceptual Sensitivity ◽  
Detection Approach ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
The Individual

Collectivistic orientation, which entails interdependent self-construal and concern for interpersonal harmony and social adjustment, has been suggested to be associated with detecting emotional expressions that signal social threat than individualistic orientation, which entails independent self-construal. The present research tested if this detection is a result of enhanced perceptual sensitivity or of response bias. We used country as proxy of individualism and collectivism (Country IC), measured IC of individuals with a questionnaire (Individual IC) and manipulated IC with culture priming (Situational IC). Dutch participants in the Netherlands (n = 143) and Chinese participants in China (n = 151) performed a social threat detection task where they had to categorize ambiguous facial expressions as “angry” or “not angry”. As the stimuli varied in degrees of scowling and frequency of presentation, we were able to measure the participants' perceptual sensitivity and response bias following the principles of the Signal Detection Theory. On the Country IC level, the results indicated that individualism-representative Dutch participants had higher perceptual sensitivity than collectivism-representative Chinese participants; whereas, Chinese participants were more biased towards categorizing a scowling face as “angry” than the Dutch (i.e. stronger liberal bias). In both groups, collectivism on the Individual IC was associated with a bias towards recognizing a scowling face as “not angry” (i.e. stronger conservative bias). Culture priming (Situational IC) affected neither perceptual sensitivity nor response bias. Our data suggested that cultural differences were in the form of behavioral tendency and IC entails multiple constructs linked to different outcomes in social threat detection.

Physical Aggression Is Associated With More Effective Postdecisional Processing of Social Threat

2021 ◽  
pp. 216770262096629
Author(s):  
Grace M. Brennan ◽  
Arielle Baskin-Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Social Decisions ◽  
Angry Rumination ◽  
Incarcerated Men ◽  
Over Time

Physically aggressive individuals are more likely to decide that others are threatening. Yet no research has examined how physically aggressive individuals’ social decisions unfold in real time. Seventy-five incarcerated men completed a task in which they identified the emotions in faces displaying anger (i.e., threat) and happiness (i.e., nonthreat) at low, moderate, or high ambiguity. Participants then rated their confidence in their decisions either immediately or after a delay, and changes in confidence provided an index of postdecisional processing. Physical aggression was associated with stronger differentiation of threatening and nonthreatening faces under moderate ambiguity. Moreover, physical aggression was associated with steeper decreases in confidence over time following decisions that threatening faces were nonthreatening, indicating more extensive postdecisional processing. This pattern of postdecisional processing mediated the association between physical aggression and angry rumination. Findings suggest a role for postdecisional processing in the maintenance of threat-based social decisions in physical aggression.

Neural Responses to Induced Emotion and Response to Social Threat in Intermittent Explosive Disorder

2021 ◽  
pp. 111388
Author(s):  
Nicole Ogbuagu ◽  
Sarah Keedy ◽  
K. Luan Phan ◽  
Emil F. Coccaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Threat ◽  
Neural Responses ◽  
Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Vigilant or avoidant? Children's temperamental shyness, patterns of gaze, and physiology during social threat

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristie L. Poole ◽  
Louis A. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Threat

Processing of facial affect under social threat in socially anxious adults: mood matters

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Leber ◽  
Thomas Heidenreich ◽  
Ulrich Stangier ◽  
Stefan G. Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Facial Affect ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
Socially Anxious

scholarly journals Diversity and Out-Group Attitudes in the Netherlands: The Role of Authoritarianism and Social Threat in the Neighbourhood

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1414-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasper Van Assche ◽  
Arne Roets ◽  
Kristof Dhont ◽  
Alain Van Hiel
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Threat

scholarly journals Different patterns of behavioural and emotional difficulties through adolescence: The influence of prosocial skills

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Ortuño-Sierra ◽  
Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero ◽  
Sylvia Sastre i Riba ◽  
José Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Cluster Solution ◽  
Emotional Difficulties ◽  
Prosocial Skills ◽  
School Based ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Behavioural Patterns ◽  
Cluster Composition ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties ◽  
Internalizing Difficulties

<p>The main purpose of the study was to examine the cluster composition of the analysis on the effect of gender and age of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a large school-based sample of high school adolescents ranging from 14 to 18 years old (<em>N</em> =  1474). In order to do this, a K-means iterative cluster analysis was performed. A five-cluster solution turned out to be the most parsimonious in the differentiation of emotional and behavioural patterns. A five-cluster solution yielded the following patterns: “No difficulties and high prosocial scores” (<em>n </em>= 418; 28.36%), “high difficulties and low prosocial scores” (<em>n</em> = 239; 16.21%), “high on hyperactivity, low on the rest of the difficulties subscales, and high in prosocial capabilities” (<em>n</em> = 302; 20.49%), “high on emotional and peer problems, relatively low on conduct and hyperactivity, and high in prosocial capabilities” (<em>n</em> = 275; 18.66%), and finally “hyperactivity problems and average in the others difficulties subscales, and in prosocial capabilities” (<em>n</em> = 239; 16.21%). This cluster solution was replicated attending to the same gender and age groups. Nevertheless, differences in the distribution of the cluster composition suggest that difficulties differ by gender and age. The results allow for the conclusion that men reveal a greater number of problems of an externalizing nature whereas women indicate a greater degree of problems with internalizing difficulties and prosocial skills.</p>

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