What can we learn from the study of twins about genetic and environmental influences on interpersonal affiliation, aggressiveness, and social anxiety?: a meta-analytic study

Beatty, Michael J.; Heisel, Alan D.; Hall, Alice; Levine, Timothy R.

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“…For example, children are at a greater risk for developing an anxiety disorder if the disorder is present in their parents (e.g., Beidel & Turner, 1997). Indeed, in their metaanalysis of twin research, Beatty, Heisel, Hall, Levine, and La France (2002) reported a heritability quotient of social anxiety of 65%.…”

Section: Etiology Of Social Anxiety In Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 96%

The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children

Weeks

Coplan

Kingsbury

2009

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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Section: Etiology Of Social Anxiety In Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 96%

The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children

Weeks

Coplan

Kingsbury

2009

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…Twin studies estimated that 39% to 65% of the variance in shared phenotypes is caused by genetic effects. 36,46,47 Meta-analytic data of family and twin studies suggest that first-degree relatives of probands with simple phobia, social phobia, or agoraphobia have a 4.1 odds ratio of also having a diagnosable phobia. 48 Also, a longitudinal community-based study found that adolescents of parents with SOP had significantly elevated rates of SOP (9.6%) compared with offspring of parents without SOP (2.1%).…”

Section: Comorbiditymentioning

confidence: 98%

Social Phobia and Selective Mutism

Keeton

Budinger

2012

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

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“…More recently, Kendler and colleagues provided a higher heritability estimate of SAD (= .51), correcting for unreliability by means of conducting repeated assessments 8 years apart (Kendler, Karkowski, & Prescott, 1999). A recent meta-analysis of twin studies reported a heritability estimate of .65 (Beatty, Heisel, Hall, Levine, & La France, 2002). Overall, these data indicate a mild to moderate genetic contribution to the development of social anxiety.…”

Section: Twin and Family Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attentional biases in social anxiety: An investigation using the inattentional blindness paradigm

Lee

Telch

2008

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Social anxiety disorder is the third most common mental disorder with the lifetime prevalence rate of 13.3% in the US population. Typically, it causes significant impairment in a wide range of functioning and follows a chronic, unremitting course if untreated. Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in clinical research aimed at examining underlying mechanisms maintaining social anxiety.One line of research has investigated attentional biases in social anxiety, using various cognitive experiment paradigms, including the emotional Stroop and the modified dotprobe tasks. However, overall findings are equivocal about the nature of attentional biases in social anxiety and several methodological problems limit the interpretability of the data. The present study examined attentional biases associated with social anxiety using a new research paradigm in the field of anxiety disorders: the inattentional blindness paradigm. This paradigm presents a social cue in the absence of the subjects' expectation while they are engaged in a cognitively demanding task, thereby enabling the v more purely attentional aspect of information processing to be examined reducing the influence of potential response biases or effortful strategies. Two independent experiments were conducted using nonclinical student samples consisting of individuals high in social anxiety (HSAs) versus individuals low in social anxiety (LSAs) based on the static and sustained inattentional blindness tasks. Overall, results revealed that HSAs were more likely to detect or identify a socially-threatening cue, relative to LSAs; whereas LSAs were more likely to detect or identify a non-threatening social cue, relative to HSAs. These findings were observed only in the presence of a bogus-speech manipulation. These data suggest the promising utility of the inattentional blindness paradigm in investigating attentional biases in social anxiety and perhaps other psychopathological conditions. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.vi

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What can we learn from the study of twins about genetic and environmental influences on interpersonal affiliation, aggressiveness, and social anxiety?: a meta-analytic study

Cited by 56 publications

References 68 publications

The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children

The correlates and consequences of early appearing social anxiety in young children

Social Phobia and Selective Mutism

Attentional biases in social anxiety: An investigation using the inattentional blindness paradigm

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