scholarly journals Differentiating emotions across contexts: Comparing adults with and without social anxiety disorder using random, social interaction, and daily experience sampling.

Emotion ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd B. Kashdan ◽  
Antonina S. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Experience Sampling ◽  
Daily Experience

scholarly journals A Two-Person Neuroscience Approach for Social Anxiety: A Paradigm With Interbrain Synchrony and Neurofeedback

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia A. Saul ◽  
Xun He ◽  
Stuart Black ◽  
Fred Charles
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
The Social

Social anxiety disorder has been widely recognised as one of the most commonly diagnosed mental disorders. Individuals with social anxiety disorder experience difficulties during social interactions that are essential in the regular functioning of daily routines; perpetually motivating research into the aetiology, maintenance and treatment methods. Traditionally, social and clinical neuroscience studies incorporated protocols testing one participant at a time. However, it has been recently suggested that such protocols are unable to directly assess social interaction performance, which can be revealed by testing multiple individuals simultaneously. The principle of two-person neuroscience highlights the interpersonal aspect of social interactions that observes behaviour and brain activity from both (or all) constituents of the interaction, rather than analysing on an individual level or an individual observation of a social situation. Therefore, two-person neuroscience could be a promising direction for assessment and intervention of the social anxiety disorder. In this paper, we propose a novel paradigm which integrates two-person neuroscience in a neurofeedback protocol. Neurofeedback and interbrain synchrony, a branch of two-person neuroscience, are discussed in their own capacities for their relationship with social anxiety disorder and relevance to the paradigm. The newly proposed paradigm sets out to assess the social interaction performance using interbrain synchrony between interacting individuals, and to employ a multi-user neurofeedback protocol for intervention of the social anxiety.

A longitudinal assessment of the bivalent fear of evaluation model with social interaction anxiety in social anxiety disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 1253-1260
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Johnson ◽  
Samantha R. Bank ◽  
Mark Summers ◽  
Matthew P. Hyett ◽  
David M. Erceg‐Hurn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Longitudinal Assessment ◽  
Social Interaction Anxiety ◽  
Interaction Anxiety

scholarly journals A Modified Trier Social Stress Test to Investigate Social Anxiety using Videoconferencing Software: A Proof-of-Concept study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Huneke ◽  
Hannah Rowlatt ◽  
Joshua Hyde ◽  
Louise Maryan ◽  
David Baldwin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Stress Test ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Trier Social Stress Test ◽  
Experimental Medicine ◽  
Interaction Task

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common mental disorders and can be significantly disabling. New treatments are needed as the remission rate for SAD is the lowest of all the anxiety disorders. Experimental medicine models, in which features resembling a clinical disorder are experimentally induced, can be a cost-effective and timely approach to explore potential novel treatments for psychiatric disorders. One such model is the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), which induces social-evaluative threat and subsequent stress responses in participants. However, following the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, there is a need to develop protocols that can be carried out remotely. We developed a novel modified TSST to investigate SAD that can be carried out entirely online (the Internet-based Trier Stress test for Social Anxiety Disorder; iTSSAD). Our protocol involves a naturalistic social interaction task to explore social anxiety symptoms. The observing panel was also artificial which allows the entire protocol to be carried out by a single investigator, reducing costs and improving internal reliability. The iTSSAD induced significant subjective anxiety and reduced positive affect (F’s > 4.41, p’s < 0.02). Further, social anxiety symptoms correlated with anxiety during the social interaction task (r = 0.65, p = 0.0032). This protocol needs further validation with physiological measures. The iTSSAD is a new tool for researchers to investigate mechanisms underlying social anxiety disorder.

scholarly journals Processing of increased frequency of social interaction in social anxiety disorder and borderline personality disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Weinbrecht ◽  
Michael Niedeggen ◽  
Stefan Roepke ◽  
Babette Renneberg
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Outcome Variable

AbstractWe investigated how patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) and patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) process an increase in the frequency of social interaction. We used an EEG-compatible version of the online ball-tossing game Cyberball to induce an increase in the frequency of social interaction. In the first condition, each player received the ball equally often (inclusion: 33% ball reception). In the following condition, the frequency of the ball reception was increased (overinclusion: 45% ball reception). The main outcome variable was the event-related potential P2, an indicator for social reward processing. Moreover, positive emotions were assessed. Twenty-eight patients with SAD, 29 patients with BPD and 28 healthy controls (HCs) participated. As expected, HCs and patients with BPD, but not patients with SAD, showed an increase in the P2 amplitude from the inclusion to the overinclusion condition. Contrary to our expectations, positive emotions did not change from the inclusion to the overinclusion condition. EEG results provide preliminary evidence that patients with BPD and HCs, but not patients with SAD, process an increase in the frequency of social interaction as rewarding.

scholarly journals Psychometric properties of the social interaction anxiety scale and the social phobia scale in Hungarian adults and adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andras N. Zsido ◽  
Brigitta Varadi-Borbas ◽  
Nikolett Arato
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interaction Anxiety ◽  
Social Interaction Anxiety Scale ◽  
Interaction Anxiety ◽  
Age Range

Abstract Background Although social anxiety disorder is one of the most frequent disorders, it often remained unrecognized. Utilizing brief, yet reliable screening tools, such as the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS-6) and the Social Phobia Scale (SPS-6) are helping to solve this problem in parts of Western Europe and the US. Still some countries, like Hungary, lag behind. For this purpose, previous studies call for further evidence on the applicability of the scales in various populations and cultures, as well as the elaborative validity of the short forms. Here, we aimed to provide a thorough analysis of the scales in five studies. We employed item response theory (IRT) to explore the psychometric properties of the SIAS-6 and the SPS-6 in Hungarian adults (n = 3213, age range:19–80) and adolescents (n = 292, age range:14–18). Results In both samples, IRT analyses demonstrated that the items of SIAS-6 and SPS-6 had high discriminative power and cover a wide range of the latent trait. Using various subsamples, we showed that (1) the scales had excellent convergent and divergent validity in relation to domains of anxiety, depression, and cognitive emotion regulation in both samples. Further, that (2) the scales discriminated those with a history of fainting or avoidance from those without such history. Lastly, (3) the questionnaires can discriminate people diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (n = 30, age range:13–71) and controls. Conclusions These findings suggest that the questionnaires are suitable for screening for SAD in adults and adolescents. Although the confirmation of the two-factor structure may be indicative of the validity of the “performance only” specifier of SAD in DSM-V, the high correlation between the factors and the similar patter of convergent validity might indicate that it is not a discrete entity but rather a part of SAD; and that SAD is latently continuous.

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