Displays of negative facial affect during parent–adolescent conflict and the bidirectional transmission of social anxiety

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary L. Woody ◽  
Aleksandra Kaurin ◽  
Kirsten M.P. McKone ◽  
Cecile D. Ladouceur ◽  
Jennifer S. Silk
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Adolescent Conflict ◽  
Bidirectional Transmission

Facial affect processing in social anxiety: Tasks and stimuli

2010 ◽  
Vol 193 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Paulo Machado-de-Sousa ◽  
Kátia C. Arrais ◽  
Nelson T. Alves ◽  
Marcos H.N. Chagas ◽  
Carolina de Meneses-Gaya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Affect Processing

Facial affect recognition and social anxiety in preschool children

2010 ◽  
Vol 180 (10) ◽  
pp. 1349-1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea M. Ale ◽  
Daniel B. Chorney ◽  
Chad S. Brice ◽  
Tracy L. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Affect Recognition ◽  
Facial Affect Recognition

scholarly journals Facial Affect and Interpersonal Affiliation: Displays of Emotion During Relationship Formation in Social Anxiety Disorder

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 826-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Pearlstein ◽  
Charles T. Taylor ◽  
Murray B. Stein
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Social Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Relationship Formation ◽  
Treatment Target ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
Automated Software

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) often involves difficulty developing relationships. Facial expressions are important in relationship formation, but data are limited regarding facial display production among persons with SAD during social interaction. The current study compared facial displays of individuals diagnosed with SAD ( n = 41) to control participants ( n = 24) as they interacted with a confederate; confederates and observers then rated their desire for future interaction with participants. Automated software used the Facial Action Coding System to classify displays. During portions of the interaction that involved listening to partners, the SAD group smiled less frequently and less intensely than controls, and less smiling was associated with others’ lower desire for future interaction with participants. Diminished positive facial affect in response to interaction partners may disrupt relationship formation in SAD and may serve as an effective treatment target.

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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