Perceived Impact of Socially Anxious Behaviors on Individuals' Lives in Western and East Asian Countries

Rapee, Ronald M.; Kim, Jinkwan; Wang, Jianping; Liu, Xinghua; Hofmann, S.; Chen, Junwen; Oh, Kyung Ya; Bögels, Susan M.; Arman, Soroor; Heinrichs, Nina; Alden, Lynn E.

doi:10.1016/j.beth.2010.11.004

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“…In line with this possibility, researchers have found a lower prevalence of social anxiety disorder in East Asian and Latin American countries [11 – 13]. In line with the findings of lower prevalence rates in East Asia, a recent study of our research group [26] found that the association between social anxiety and life impairment was greater in individualistic than in collectivistic East Asian countries. These recent results point to the more negative impact of withdrawn and socially reticent behaviors for people from Western countries relative to those from East Asia.…”

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Social anxiety and social norms in individualistic and collectivistic countries

Schreier¹,

Heinrichs²,

Alden

et al. 2010

Depress. Anxiety

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Background Social anxiety is assumed to be related to cultural norms across countries. Heinrichs and colleagues [1] compared individualistic and collectivistic countries and found higher social anxiety and more positive attitudes toward socially avoidant behaviors in collectivistic than in individualistic countries. However, the authors failed to include Latin American countries in the collectivistic group. Methods To provide support for these earlier results within an extended sample of collectivistic countries, 478 undergraduate students from individualistic countries were compared with 388 undergraduate students from collectivistic countries (including East Asian and Latin American) via self report of social anxiety and social vignettes assessing social norms. Results As expected, the results of Heinrichs and colleagues [1] were replicated for the individualistic and Asian countries but not for Latin American countries. Latin American countries displayed the lowest social anxiety levels, whereas the collectivistic East Asian group displayed the highest. Conclusions These findings indicate that while culture-mediated social norms affect social anxiety and might help to shed light on the etiology of social anxiety disorder, the dimension of individualism-collectivism may not fully capture the relevant norms.

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confidence: 72%

Social anxiety and social norms in individualistic and collectivistic countries

Schreier¹,

Heinrichs²,

Alden

et al. 2010

Depress. Anxiety

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“…In contrast, internalizing symptoms may be minimized with a single stable, high‐quality friendship. Shyness was also associated with lower satisfaction with life, consistent with previous research (Rapee et al, ). Shy students may experience greater stress during the transition to college, and the conflict between approach and avoidance motivations (Asendorpf, ) may lead them to be more likely than non‐shy students to wish that their life was different.…”

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“…Shy individuals are at increased risk for a number of negative socioemotional outcomes, including elevated internalizing symptoms and loneliness in both childhood and emerging adulthood (Findlay, Coplan, & Bowker, 2009;Grose & Coplan, 2015;Nelson et al, 2008). Furthermore, shy college students have significantly lower quality of life compared to more outgoing students (Rapee et al, 2011). With the additional stressors associated with the transition to college, these patterns may be even more evident during the first year of college (Booth, Bartlett, & Bohnsack, 1992;Mounts, Valentiner, Anderson, & Boswell, 2006).…”

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Effects of shyness and friendship on socioemotional adjustment during the college transition

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2019

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This study identified (a) friendship changes during the first year of college, and how this change is affected by shyness, and (b) how shyness and friendship individually and in combination affect socioemotional well‐being. In Fall and Spring, first‐year college students reported on shyness, friendship quality and stability, internalizing symptoms, loneliness, and life satisfaction. There was substantial stability in friendships, particularly among shy students. A Person × Interpersonal Environment Interaction predicted socioemotional well‐being. Shy students with high‐quality versus low‐quality friendships reported lower internalizing symptoms. Although shyness was associated with increased loneliness and decreased life satisfaction, high‐quality friendships showed modest evidence of moderating these relationships. Many students maintained precollege friendships, but high‐quality friendships were particularly beneficial for shy students.

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“…Among Chinese children, shyness was positively related to academic achievement and was unrelated to perceived social competence, whereas shyness was negatively related to perceived social competence among Canadian and Brazilian children and was unrelated to academic achievement among Canadian and Italian children. A more direct examination of functional impairment related to symptoms of social anxiety in a young adult sample demonstrated a significantly lower correlation between symptoms of social anxiety and life impairment among students from East Asian countries than students from Western countries (Rapee et al., 2011). Further, in response to hypothetical descriptions of people showing characteristically reticent versus outgoing behaviours, students from East Asian countries predicted less impact and impairment from reticent behaviours on social and career functioning than did the Western students.…”

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Annual Research Review: Conceptualising functional impairment in children and adolescents

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Bögels

Sluis

et al. 2011

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Functional impairment is a key factor in the clinical importance of mental health problems in children. Yet, the nature of impairment and criteria for defining and assessing impairment in childhood disorders has been surprisingly overlooked in much of the literature. The current article examines the extant literature on the conceptualisation, nature and assessment of impairment in childhood disorders. Relations between diagnostic symptoms and functional impairment are discussed together with the influence of impairment on diagnostic decisions and prevalence rates. Several factors influencing impairment in childhood such as culture, development and gender are considered. This article concludes with a discussion of the utility of separating judgements of impairment from specific diagnoses, which is proposed for consideration in the forthcoming DSM-5.

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Perceived Impact of Socially Anxious Behaviors on Individuals' Lives in Western and East Asian Countries

Cited by 53 publications

References 28 publications

Social anxiety and social norms in individualistic and collectivistic countries

Social anxiety and social norms in individualistic and collectivistic countries

Effects of shyness and friendship on socioemotional adjustment during the college transition

Annual Research Review: Conceptualising functional impairment in children and adolescents

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