Relationship Of Social Anxiety Research Articles

Social exclusion and social anxiety among Chinese undergraduate students: Fear of negative evaluation and resilience as mediators

This study investigated how fear of negative evaluation and resilience fi.mction as mediators in the association between social exclusion and social anxiety among Chinese undergraduate students. Participants (n = 876; female= 64.7%; freshman= 69.4%; mean age= 19.6 years, SD = 0.62 years) completed self-report measures evaluating social exclusion, fear of negative evaluation, resilience, and interaction anxiousness. Results revealed that social exclusion was associated with higher social anxiety, especially among male students (mean= 1.921) as compared to female students (mean= 1.7887). In terms of social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation, female students reported higher levels of both than male students. However, with reference to resilience, no significant sex differences were noted. Freshman students had the lowest level of social anxiety as compared to other grade students. Fear of negative evaluation meditated the association between social exclusion and social anxiety to be 4.50% higher accounting for 26.92% of the total mediation effect. By contrast, resilience was a buffer in the social exclusion and social anxiety relationship. Specifically, resilience as a buffer accounted for 3.71% lower social anxiety and 18.63% of the total mediation effect. These findings that suggest social exclusion is a risk for social anxiety, compounded by negative self-evaluation. Resilience training could be a prevention intervention for undergraduate students facing social anxiety.

Self-compassion and social anxiety in late adolescence: Contributions of self-reflection and insight

ABSTRACT This study aimed to explore the moderating effects of self-reflection and insight in the self-compassion and social anxiety relationship. A convenience sample of 110 college students aged between 18-20 years reported on self-compassion, self-reflection and insight, as well as social anxiety symptoms. Findings revealed that: (1) late adolescents with both high levels of self-compassion and self-reflection were less prone to experience social anxiety, yet those with lower self-compassion and high self-reflection reported more social anxiety symptoms; and (2) late adolescents who were both more self-compassionate and presented higher levels of insight were more protected against social anxiety. Both self-reflection and insight could be relevant mechanisms for understanding how psychological interventions might generate changes in late adolescent’s social anxiety symptoms.

The Mediating Role of Paranoid Thought and Self-Concealment in the relationship of Social Anxiety and Depression: Based on the results from the university and graduate students

The Mediating Role of Paranoid Thought and Self-Concealment in the relationship of Social Anxiety and Depression: Based on the results from the university and graduate students

Effect of Peer Victimization on Social Anxiety in Middle School Students and The Mediating Role of Self-Concept

This study examined the mediating effect of self-concept on the relationship of peer victimization and social anxiety in middle school students. Study participants consisted of 235 (122 boys and 113 girls) first to third graders from three middle schools located in Seoul and Gyung-gi province. The School Violence Experience Scale and the Self-Concept Scale were used to measure research variables in the Korean version of Social Anxiety Scale for adolescents. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficients were calculated to examine the general tendency of study variables. In addition, structural equation modeling(SEM) was used to examine the mediating model. The study results were as follows. First, the level of peer victimization of the middle school students decreased the self-concept level; in addition, the self-concept level had a significant negative effect on the social anxiety level. Second, the self-concept level fully mediated the peer victimization and social anxiety relationship. In conclusion, a higher peer victimization level resulted in a lower self-concept level, that produced a higher social anxiety level in middle school students. The results suggested that implementing effective interventions to prevent peer victimization and encouraging a positive self-concept in middle school students would make a significant contribution to reducing social anxiety.

Social anxiety and drinking game participation among university students: the moderating role of drinking to cope

ABSTRACTBackground: Few studies have examined the relationship of social anxiety with drinking game participation. Drinking games represent a popular form of drinking in university settings. Due to their structure, games may appeal to socially anxious drinkers, particularly among those seeking to fit in or cope with the social setting. Objectives: To examine the relationship of social anxiety with frequency of drinking game participation among a university undergraduate sample and to investigate if drinking motives moderate this association. Method: A total of 227 undergraduate students aged 18–24 years (73% female) who had consumed alcohol in the prior year were included in the current investigation. Hierarchical regression examined the influences of social anxiety and drinking motives on frequency of drinking game participation, as well the interactions of social anxiety with drinking for coping motives and conformity motives. Results: Social anxiety failed to emerge as a significant predictor of frequency of drinking game participation. However, drinking to cope moderated the relationship of social anxiety with frequency of drinking game participation. Socially anxious students who drank to cope were more likely to participate in drinking games on occasions when they consumed alcohol than those who did not endorse this drinking motive. Conclusion: Results demonstrated the influence of drinking to cope in the relationship of social anxiety with frequency of drinking game participation. Future work should examine the relationship with other indicators of drinking game activity. Intervention efforts addressing social anxiety and drinking should consider motives for drinking, as well as drinking patterns.

P01-35 - Relationship of social anxiety severity with drinking motives among male alcohol dependent inpatients

ObjectiveAim of this study was to investigate the relationship of social anxiety (SA) severity with drinking motives in male alcohol dependent inpatients.MethodParticipants were 155 consecutively admitted male alcohol dependents. Patients were investigated with the Drinking Motives Questionnaire—Revised (DMQ-R), the Social Phobia Scale (SPS), and the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS).ResultsMean scores of DMQ-R subscales were positively correlated with social anxiety scales in different degrees. Conformity motives predicted both SPS (together with social motives) and SIAS.ConclusionsSPS which evaluates social phobia-circumscribed type was predicted by conformity and social motives, whereas SIAS which evaluates social phobia-generalised type was predicted by only conformity motives. This suggests that different types of motivation may be related with different types of social phobia.

The Relationship of Social Anxiety with Identity, Public Self-Consciousness, and Interdependent Self: A Comparative Study of Korean and Japanese University Students

本研究は対人不安が日本文化を反映した日本人の特徴であるという意見に疑問を呈し，同じ東洋文化である韓国大学生272名と日本の大学生250名を対象にした比較文化研究を行った．青年期の発達課題である同一性の確立，公的自己意識，及び相互依存的自己という3つの要因を取り上げて，共分散構造分析により対人不安発生の因果構造を検討した．その結果，対人不安を規定する3つの要因の影響力の表れ方には差があり，対人不安は日本の方が韓国より高いことが見出されたものの，対人不安に影響する3つの要因のパス図が両国に共通することが示された．対人不安が日本人の特徴というより，韓国と日本に共通する心理構造であることが示唆された．

Development of an Interview for Anxiety-Relevant Interpersonal Styles: Preliminary Support for Convergent and Discriminant Validity

This report presents preliminary psychometric support for a new approach to assess anxiety-relevant interpersonal styles in close relationships, the Social Anxiety Relationship Interview (SARI). The SARI is a semistructured interview, designed to evaluate relevant interpersonal styles (e.g., lack of assertion, conflict avoidance, and fear of expressing strong emotions). In this report, the convergent and discriminant validity of the SARI are examined. Results indicate that the SARI demonstrated good convergent validity, with correlations ranging from .2 to .5 between the subscales and related constructs such as assertiveness, affective control, assertion of autonomy, lack of social self-confidence, and avoidant problem solving. Examining the relationship between the SARI subscales and four conceptually unrelated constructs (somatization, hostility, paranoia, and psychoticism) indicated few significant associations, controlling for social anxiety. Additionally, most aspects of interpersonal functioning assessed by the SARI appeared specific to social anxiety, on the basis of analyses that controlled for trait anxiety. Finally, SARI responses do not appear to be influenced by social desirability. These data provide promising support for this measure, which will encourage greater exploration of the role of interpersonal factors in social anxiety.

Social anxiety in insulin-dependent diabetic girls

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of social anxiety and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (n = 40 girls between 13 and 19 years of age). Mean duration of diabetes was 7 years. We supposed that this chronic illness may provoke feelings of friendlessness and sadness, social withdrawal and fear of social situations because diabetes entails a series of demands which differentiate the diabetic child from healthy children. Our population was compared with 35 healthy young girls. All were administered the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age-Children and completed the State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, the Self-Consciousness Scale and the Imaginary Audience Scale. Diagnoses of anxiety disorders across DSM-IIIR do not show significant differences between groups. In self-report inventories, our findings do not support the hypothesis that social anxiety is a pathological symptom in diabetic subjects. However, they were more depressed than the control group. Furthermore, social functioning of the diabetic group did not differ from that of the control group. They were more concerned with their illness than with social anxiety.