scholarly journals Social Anxiety and Peer Helping in Adolescent Addiction Treatment

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria E. Pagano ◽  
Alexandra R. Wang ◽  
Brieana M. Rowles ◽  
Matthew T. Lee ◽  
Byron R. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Peer Helping

scholarly journals Severity of anxiety in mental health versus addiction treatment settings when social anxiety and substance abuse are comorbid

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1158-1161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah W. Book ◽  
Suzanne E. Thomas ◽  
Joshua P. Smith ◽  
Peter M. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Treatment Settings

scholarly journals Social anxiety impacts willingness to participate in addiction treatment

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 474-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah W. Book ◽  
Suzanne E. Thomas ◽  
Jared P. Dempsey ◽  
Patrick K. Randall ◽  
Carrie L. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Willingness To Participate

Attentional Bias Among Adolescents Who Stutter: Evidence for a Vigilance–Avoidance Effect

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 3349-3363
Author(s):  
Naomi H. Rodgers ◽  
Jennifer Y. F. Lau ◽  
Patricia M. Zebrowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Cutoff Score ◽  
Attentional Disengagement ◽  
Social Stimuli ◽  
Facial Stimuli ◽  
The Social ◽  
Attentional Engagement ◽  
High Social Anxiety

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine group and individual differences in attentional bias toward and away from socially threatening facial stimuli among adolescents who stutter and age- and sex-matched typically fluent controls. Method Participants included 86 adolescents (43 stuttering, 43 controls) ranging in age from 13 to 19 years. They completed a computerized dot-probe task, which was modified to allow for separate measurement of attentional engagement with and attentional disengagement from facial stimuli (angry, fearful, neutral expressions). Their response time on this task was the dependent variable. Participants also completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) and provided a speech sample for analysis of stuttering-like behaviors. Results The adolescents who stutter were more likely to engage quickly with threatening faces than to maintain attention on neutral faces, and they were also more likely to disengage quickly from threatening faces than to maintain attention on those faces. The typically fluent controls did not show any attentional preference for the threatening faces over the neutral faces in either the engagement or disengagement conditions. The two groups demonstrated equivalent levels of social anxiety that were both, on average, very close to the clinical cutoff score for high social anxiety, although degree of social anxiety did not influence performance in either condition. Stuttering severity did not influence performance among the adolescents who stutter. Conclusion This study provides preliminary evidence for a vigilance–avoidance pattern of attentional allocation to threatening social stimuli among adolescents who stutter.

An Initial Investigation of the Use of Comparative Referents to Assess Social Anxiety

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 367-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura D. Seligman ◽  
Erin F. Swedish ◽  
Jason P. Rose ◽  
Jessica M. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Injunctive Norms ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Excellent Internal Consistency ◽  
Social Quality Of Life ◽  
Comparison Measures

Abstract. The current study examined the validity of two self-report measures of social anxiety constructed using social comparative referent points. It was hypothesized that these comparison measures would be both reliable and valid. Results indicated that two different comparative versions – one invoking injunctive norms and another invoking descriptive norms – showed good reliability, excellent internal consistency, and acceptable convergent and discriminant validity. The comparative measures also predicted positive functioning, some aspects of social quality of life, and social anxiety as measured by an independent self-report. These findings suggest that adding a comparative reference point to instructions on social anxiety measures may aid in the assessment of social anxiety.

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