Predictors of Excessive Reassurance Seeking in Social Anxiety

ConclusionsFuture prospective, naturalistic, and experimental research is needed to verify that evaluative threat-related reassurance seeking in social anxiety may be driven by heightened self-doubt and engagement in post-event processing, which may hinder socially anxious individuals from receiving high-quality support from those in their social network.
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research