Short Form of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents among community and institutionalized Portuguese youths

Nunes, Cristina; Ayala-Nunes, Lara; Pechorro, Pedro; Greca, Annette M. La

doi:10.1016/j.ijchp.2018.06.001

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“…In contrast, another group of researchers found evidence of a negative association between accuracy on two behavioral cognitive empathy measures and social anxiety severity in a sample recruited via MTurk and two university research participation pools (Alvi et al, 2020). An additional study focused on nonpsychiatric adolescents, and found no significant associations between social anxiety severity and self-reported cognitive empathy (Nunes et al, 2018).…”

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“…The literature on affective empathy and social anxiety severity is smaller than that for cognitive empathy, and findings vary similarly as a function of the population sampled and the measurement approach. In studies of nonpsychiatric samples (Davis, 1983;Nunes et al, 2018), social anxiety severity positively predicted self-reported affective empathy. Morrison et al (2016), however, found evidence that individuals with SAD exhibited reduced affective empathy in response to viewing film clips of others' positive but not negative emotions.…”

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Higher Social Anxiety Severity Predicts Better Cognitive Empathy Performance in Women but Not Men

Berg¹,

Bedwell²,

Dvorak

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Findings regarding relationships between social anxiety and subtypes of empathy have been mixed, and one study suggested that this may be due to moderation by biological sex. The present study examined whether accounting for general anxiety and biological sex clarifies these relationships. Undergraduates ( N = 701, 76% female) completed online self-report measures of cognitive and affective empathy, social and general anxiety severity, and a behavioral measure of cognitive empathy (Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task; MIE). Path analysis examined relationships among social and general anxiety severity and affective and cognitive empathy. Model modification indices showed a significant influence of sex on the path from social anxiety severity to MIE accuracy. When the model was re-estimated with this path freed, more socially anxious women, but not men, showed greater MIE accuracy. Across both sexes, general anxiety severity related negatively to self-reported and behavioral (MIE) cognitive empathy. Affective empathy did not relate to either type of anxiety. The use of path analysis to simultaneously account for overlapping variance among measures of anxiety and empathy helps clarify earlier mixed findings on relationships between social anxiety and empathy subtypes.

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Higher Social Anxiety Severity Predicts Better Cognitive Empathy Performance in Women but Not Men

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Bedwell²,

Dvorak

et al. 2020

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“…Although the determining factors are individual in nature (Nunes et al, 2018, Olivares-Olivares et al, 2019), a number of contextual factors are undoubtedly involved, too. Here, special attention has been paid to the family, and most of the studies have been focused on examining the parents’ mental health or the parental behaviour which is linked to organising their social life (Knappe et al, 2009).…”

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Parenting practices and adolescent social anxiety: A direct or indirect relationship?

Gómez-Ortiz

Romera

Jiménez-Castillejo

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International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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Background/Objectives According to existing evidence, parental educational practices and social anxiety are to some degree connected. However, the possibility that this relationship is an indirect one and is mediated by individual factors such as self-esteem or emotional regulation has not yet been explored. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the relationship between maternal and paternal educational practices and social anxiety, and test both the direct and the indirect pathways. Method: The representative sample consisted of 2,060 Andalusian students (47.7% girls, M age = 14.34) who filled in various self-reports. Results: The structural equation models confirmed that a direct relationship, with a low effect size, exists between parental educational practices and social anxiety and that there is also an indirect relationship, mediated by negative self-esteem and emotional suppression (the emotional regulation strategy), which accounted here for 49.1% of the variance in social anxiety. Conclusions: Parental education practices seem to act as a family asset which either promotes or hinders the development of basic attitudes and competencies such as self-esteem or emotional regulation and, by doing this, either encourages or prevents the emergence of problems such as social anxiety.

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“…Empirical evidence shows that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be efficacious for SAD and is considered the first-choice psychological intervention for the disorder (American Psychological Association (APA), 2016). However, despite the good results, there is general agreement on the need to improve the range of effectiveness and efficiency of these treatments (Bornas et al, 2017, McAleavey et al, 2014, Nunes et al, 2018, Wersebe et al, 2018a, Wersebe et al, 2018b).…”

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Role of social skills training in adolescents with social anxiety disorder

Olivares-Olivares

Ortiz-González

Olivares

2019

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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Background/Objective: Social skills training (SST) is frequently included in the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD) in both children and adolescents, although there is no empirical evidence to support it. Consequently, our objective is to study the role and effects of SST in the treatment of a sample of adolescents with SAD. Method: A total of 108 adolescents diagnosed with generalized social phobia were randomly assigned to two treatment conditions (with and without SST) and a control group waiting list (WLCG). The evaluation included self-report measures, observational tests and blind evaluators. Results: Both interventions significantly reduced the number of social situations feared/avoided with respect to the WLCG, which worsened. Likewise, both interventions were effective but the group with SST obtained better results in the post-test and follow-ups, as well as a lower dropout rate (6:1). Conclusions: The use of SST reduces the dropout rate of treated adolescents and increases the effectiveness of the Intervention Program for Adolescents with Social Phobia.

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Short Form of the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents among community and institutionalized Portuguese youths

Cited by 11 publications

References 39 publications

Higher Social Anxiety Severity Predicts Better Cognitive Empathy Performance in Women but Not Men

Higher Social Anxiety Severity Predicts Better Cognitive Empathy Performance in Women but Not Men

Parenting practices and adolescent social anxiety: A direct or indirect relationship?

Role of social skills training in adolescents with social anxiety disorder

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