Facing social fears: How do improved participants experience change in mindfulness-based stress reduction for social anxiety disorder?

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Aslak Hjeltnes ◽  
Christian Moltu ◽  
Elisabeth Schanche ◽  
Ylva Jansen ◽  
Per-Einar Binder
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

An open trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction for young adults with social anxiety disorder

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslak Hjeltnes ◽  
Helge Molde ◽  
Elisabeth Schanche ◽  
Jon Vøllestad ◽  
Julie Lillebostad Svendsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Open Trial ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

scholarly journals The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Negative Self-Representations in Social Anxiety Disorder—A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liguo He ◽  
Wei Han ◽  
Zhan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Wait List ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) vs. wait list (WL) on the self-reference effect involving negative adjectives in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Eighty-five participants with SAD were randomly assigned to 12 weeks of MBSR or WL and completed an incidental SRE task that assessed treatment-related negative self-representations. Self-related negative adjectives were worse remembered in MBSR than in WL, and other-related negative adjectives were better remembered in MBSR than in WL. No differences emerged between the levels of self- and other-related processing for adjectives in MBSR. Moreover, the MBSR-related decreases in the difference in recognition memory performance between self and other conditions, that is, the treatment-related equilibrium, could predict the MBSR-related decreases in social anxiety symptoms. The selfless functioning and self-other control that can provide reasonable interpretations for these findings were discussed.

scholarly journals Mindfulness Meditation Training and Self-Referential Processing in Social Anxiety Disorder: Behavioral and Neural Effects

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Goldin ◽  
Wiveka Ramel ◽  
James Gross
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Brain Network ◽  
Social Self ◽  
Attention Regulation ◽  
Referential Processing ◽  
Brain Behavior

This study examined the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the brain–behavior mechanisms of self-referential processing in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). Sixteen patients underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while encoding self-referential, valence, and orthographic features of social trait adjectives. Post-MBSR, 14 patients completed neuroimaging. Compared to baseline, MBSR completers showed (a) increased self-esteem and decreased anxiety, (b) increased positive and decreased negative self-endorsement, (c) increased activity in a brain network related to attention regulation, and (d) reduced activity in brain systems implicated in conceptual-linguistic self-view. MBSR-related changes in maladaptive or distorted social self-view in adults diagnosed with SAD may be related to modulation of conceptual self-processing and attention regulation. Self-referential processing may serve as a functional biobehavioral target to measure the effects of mindfulness training.

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