The roles of fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety in the relationship between self-compassion and loneliness: a serial mediation model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinyi Liu ◽  
Ying Yang ◽  
Hang Wu ◽  
Xiangjing Kong ◽  
Lijuan Cui
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
The Relationship

Perpetuating factors of social anxiety: a serial mediation model

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-314
Author(s):  
Nicolette D. Carnahan ◽  
Michele M. Carter ◽  
Nathaniel R. Herr
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Perceived Control ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Event Processing ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Anticipatory Anxiety ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Safety Behaviour

AbstractBackground:There is evidence that individuals with high levels of social anxiety utilize more safety behaviours and experience more post-event processing than those with lower levels of social anxiety. There are also data to suggest that the relationship between safety behaviour use and social anxiety symptoms is mediated by perceived control of one’s anxiety. Furthermore, it has been suggested that post-event processing influences anticipatory anxiety for a future social situation.Aim:A direct link between the perpetuating factors of social anxiety described above has not been established in the literature. The aim of the current study was to test a model examining the relationship between these constructs.Method:Participants first completed a battery of questionnaires. They then participated in an impromptu, 3-minute speech and were informed they would be videotaped. Following the speech, participants completed measures of anxiety and were instructed to return the following week. During the second session, they were informed they would deliver an additional speech and provided ratings of their anxiety in anticipation of delivering the second speech.Results:The results of a serial mediation support that greater levels of social anxiety lead to less perceived control over one’s anxiety, leading to increased safety behaviour use. The increase in safety behaviours led to an increase of post-event processing which resulted in greater anticipatory anxiety for a future speech task.Conclusions:This study provides novel evidence for the importance of perceived control in the genesis of social anxiety, which has implications for treatment.

scholarly journals Moderation effect of emotion regulation on the relationship between social anxiety, drinking motives and alcohol related problems among university students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sojung Kim ◽  
Jung-Hye Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
University Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Physiological Symptoms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

Abstract Background: Accumulated evidence suggests that individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) are at particular risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). Yet, little is known about the mechanisms under this high comorbidity. This study aimed to elucidate the process of the development of alcohol related problems among individuals with elevated social anxiety. We investigated the moderation effect of difficulties in emotion regulation on the relationship between symptoms of social anxiety, coping and conformity motives and alcohol related problems. Methods: In a sample of university students (N = 647) in South Korea, we examined whether cognitive (fear of negative evaluation), behavioral (social avoidance), and physiological symptoms (concerns over physiological symptoms) of social anxiety affect alcohol related problems with the mediation of coping and conformity motives. Furthermore, difficulties in emotion regulation were hypothesized to moderate each mediational path. Results: Results showed that the fear of negative evaluation and concerns over physiological symptoms were associated with alcohol related problems with the mediation of conformity and coping motives, respectively. As hypothesized, each path was moderated by difficulties in emotion regulation. Conclusions: Findings suggest that coping and conformity motives to cope with cognitive and physiological symptoms of social anxiety were related to alcohol related problems. In addition, individuals with high levels of difficulties in emotion regulation were prone to exhibit more alcohol related problems.

scholarly journals The Ratio of Personal and Reactive Anxiety in the Psychological Status of Stuttering Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. E. Shevtsova ◽  
L. A. Tarasova ◽  
T. B. Filicheva ◽  
T. V. Tumanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Reactive Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of studying the psychological characteristics of patients with stuttering. A theoretical review of classical and modern approaches to the study of the personality of stammerers and their social and communication skills is presented. The results of an experimental study determining the relationship between social and communicative abilities and indicators of personal and reactive anxiety of stuttering patients are presented. The significance of the results obtained for building and implementing the work of an interdisciplinary team of specialists is determined.Materials and Methods. The following methods were used when writing the article: theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign literature sources; generalization and systematization of the results of studying the personal sphere of stuttering patients; experimental methods for studying the socio-communicative and psychological characteristics of patients with stuttering; methods of statistical processing of experimental data.Results. A variety of approaches to the study of personal characteristics of persons with stuttering is considered. In the course of studying the literature sources, the relationship between the state of the emotional and personal sphere and the communicative and speech capabilities of patients with stuttering was revealed, which was later confirmed when analyzing the results of the empirical part of the study. Data analysis showed that the level of social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation (the severity of social phobia) in patients with stuttering is several times higher than normal and correlates with the rigidity of fixation on a speech defect. The study revealed invariant and variable components in the structure of social and communicative maladaptation of patients with stuttering. Among the invariant components, we attributed the presence of high social anxiety (social distress, avoidance, and fear of negative evaluation) in combination with a maladaptive system of social attitudes characteristic of most stutterers. Variable components include individual characteristics of situational anxiety and socio-psychological characteristics of difficult communication, which are personalized.Discussion and Conclusions. The conducted study allowed to conclude that the difficulties and peculiarities of socio-communicative functioning of patients with stuttering need to determine the design of hierarchically structured pedagogical model of speech therapy effects that take into account the fixed and variable components in the structure of socio-communicative maladjustment and differentiate rehabilitative effect in the context of algorithmizing and personalized approach to speech therapy.

scholarly journals Moderation effect of emotion regulation on the relationship between social anxiety, drinking motives and alcohol related problems among university students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sojung Kim ◽  
Jung-Hye Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
University Students ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Physiological Symptoms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Alcohol Related Problems

Abstract Background: Accumulated evidence suggests that individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) are at particular risk of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD). Yet, little is known about the mechanisms under this high comorbidity. This study aimed to elucidate the process of the development of alcohol related problems among individuals with elevated social anxiety. We examined the moderation effect of difficulties in emotion regulation on the relationship between cognitive-behavioral-physiological symptoms of social anxiety, coping and conformity motives and alcohol related problems. Methods: In a sample of university students (N = 647) in South Korea, the proposed model in which cognitive (fear of negative evaluation)-behavioral (social avoidance)-physiological symptoms (concerns over physiological symptoms) were supposed to affect alcohol related problems with the mediation of coping and conformity motives was tested. Furthermore, difficulties in emotion regulation were hypothesized to moderate each mediational path. Results: Results showed that the fear of negative evaluation and concerns over physiological symptoms predicted alcohol related problems with the mediation of conformity and coping motives, respectively. As hypothesized, each path was moderated by difficulties in emotion regulation. Conclusions: Findings suggest that coping and conformity motives to cope with cognitive and physiological symptoms of social anxiety were related to alcohol related problems. In addition, individuals with high levels of difficulties in emotion regulation were prone to exhibit more alcohol related problems.

scholarly journals Χρήση του διαδικτύου: Κοινωνικό άγχος και δυσλειτουργικές γνωσίες στην εφηβεία και την αναδυόμενη ενηλικίωση

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Δέσποινα-Δήμητρα Ρήγα ◽  
Αικατερίνη Γκάρη
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Need To Belong ◽  
Social Avoidance ◽  
Collective Self ◽  
Collective Self Esteem ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study was to explore the associations of Internet dysfunctional use with social anxiety, the need to belong, collective self-esteem and demographic factors in a sample of 974 adolescents and emerging adults, aged 12-19 years. The following questionnaires were used: The Generalized Pathological Internet Use Scale (Caplan, 2002), the Greek Problematic Internet Use Scale (Roussos & Delizisi, 2011), the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (La Greca & Lopez, 1998), the Need to Belong Scale (Leary et al., 2013), an adapted version of the Collective Self-Esteem Scale (Luhtanen & Crocken, 1992), and an additional set of demographic questions including quantitative and qualitative aspects of Internet use. Dysfunctional Internet use was found to correlate significantly with social anxiety. Maladaptive cognitions were associated with social avoidance. Also, mood alteration correlated with the fear of negative evaluation. The exploration of alternative structural equation models showed that the main predictors of dysfunctional Internet use were the fear of negative evaluation and social avoidance. The need to belong mediated the relationship between the two social anxiety dimensions and dysfunctional cognitions. Additionally, collective self-esteem mediated the relationship between the two social anxiety dimensions and mood alteration. The findings of the study highlight the need to further examine Internet use in relation to social psychological relational factors.

scholarly journals Attachment style, thought suppression, self-compassion and depression: Testing a serial mediation model

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0245056
Author(s):  
Clara V. Murray ◽  
Juno Irma-Louise Jacobs ◽  
Adam J. Rock ◽  
Gavin I. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Thought Suppression ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Serial Mediation ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
The Relationship

Attachment anxiety has been consistently linked with increased vulnerability to depression, and hyperactivating emotion regulation strategies (e.g., rumination) have been shown to mediate this relationship. Investigations of mediators of the attachment avoidance to depression relationship have yielded inconsistent findings, and the nature of this relationship remains to be clarified. There is evidence to suggest that the constructs of thought suppression and self-compassion are associated with attachment avoidance and also with depressive symptomology. In order to further clarify the nature of this relationship, the present study tested a serial mediation model, whereby it was hypothesised that thought suppression and self-compassion were serial mediators of the relationship between attachment avoidance and depression. One hundred and forty-eight participants completed an online composite questionnaire consisting of the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised Questionnaire, the White Bear Suppression Inventory, the Self-Compassion Scale, and the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale-21. Initial results supported the hypothesised serial mediation model (Model A); that is, higher attachment avoidance predicted higher thought suppression, higher thought suppression predicted lower levels of self-compassion and lower levels of self-compassion predicted higher depression. However, this model was no longer significant following the inclusion of attachment anxiety as a covariate within the post-hoc analysis. A second, post-hoc serial mediation model was tested (Model B), with the only difference being that attachment anxiety replaced attachment avoidance as the independent variable. This model was significant, with and without the inclusion of attachment avoidance as a covariate. The study provides evidence for the central role of thought suppression and self-compassion as mechanisms underlying the relationship between insecure attachment and depression, and indicates that these factors operate in opposing directions. The findings are discussed in terms of explicating some of the processes through which insecure attachment confers vulnerability to depression. The implications of the observed degree of shared variance between the two attachment dimensions suggests these constructs may be more appropriately considered overlapping, rather than orthogonal.

New employees' interpersonal sensitivity and help-seeking behavior: Fear of negative evaluation and social anxiety as mediators

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chang Wang ◽  
Yuzhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Interpersonal Sensitivity ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Fear Of Negative Evaluation ◽  
Help Seeking Behavior ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

Little is known about the relationship between interpersonal sensitivity and help-seeking behavior (HSB), especially in the workplace context. We explored the mediating effects of both the fear of negative evaluation (FNE) and social anxiety (SA) in the association between new employees' interpersonal sensitivity (i.e., an excessive focus on the feelings and behaviors of others) and their HSB. Participants were 636 Chinese employees with 1 year or less of service in the job market. The results show that interpersonal sensitivity was negatively correlated with the HSB of new employees and that this relationship was mediated by FNE and then SA. Thus, for new employees, interpersonal sensitivity exerts a clearly negative predictive effect on HSB, and we have demonstrated the significant chain mediating effect of FNE and SA.

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