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Safety behaviors, self-focused attention and negative thinking in children with social anxiety disorder, socially anxious and non-anxious children

“…In contrast to studies with adults (e.g., Woody & Rodriguez, 2000), FAQ subscales were not independent but significantly correlated. However, externally focused attention did not contribute to the mediation model.…”

Social Anxiety Disorder of Childhood

“…Unexpectedly, we found that SAD children also report a higher externally focused attention than NA children. In contrast to studies with adults (e.g., Woody & Rodriguez, 2000), FAQ subscales were not independent but significantly correlated. However, externally focused attention did not contribute to the mediation model.…”

Manipulating Self-Focused Attention in Children with Social Anxiety Disorder and in Socially Anxious and Non-Anxious Children

“…In addition, it was found that, immediately after manipulation of attentional focus, children in the internal focus condition (IFC) reported more anticipatory anxiety before the task. This is in line with results from Woody and Rodriguez (2000) who also found that adults with and without SAD anticipated more anxiety in a self-focusing speech condition than in an external focusing condition. In contrast to previous findings documenting a relationship between selffocused attention and negative affect (Gendolla, Abele, Andrei, Spurk, & Richter, 2005;Mor et al, 2010;Mor & Winquist, 2002), the effect of self-focused attention on mood was not anxiety during task significant in the present study.…”

“…Children were instructed to indicate on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = not at all to 5 = the whole time) to what extent they attended to certain aspects of the situation during renarration (e.g., "I was focusing on what I would say or do next" or "I was focusing on the other person's appearance or dress"). In studies with adults, the FAQ demonstrated sensitivity to self-focus manipulation (Kashdan & Roberts, 2004;Woody & Rodriguez, 2000). The FAQ has not yet been validated for use with children, but there is at least some evidence for acceptable internal consistency Hodson et al, 2008).…”

“…It was supposed that a high level of selffocused attention can have detrimental effects on social performance because it reduces the attentional resources available for successful task handling. Whereas prior studies partly found a relationship between the degree of self-focus and social performance (for review see Spurr & Stopa, 2002), recent studies that investigated the relationship between those two variables found no negative effect of selffocused attention on social performance (Bögels & Lamers, 2002;Voncken et al, 2010;Woody, 1996;Woody & Rodriguez, 2000). In an experimental study from Bögels, Rijsemus, and De Jong (2002), attentional focus was manipulated with a mirror in blushing-anxious individuals.…”