Vulnerabilities in social anxiety: Integrating intra- and interpersonal perspectives

Clin Psychol Rev. 2024 Mar 11;109:102415. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102415. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhat are the major vulnerabilities in people with social anxiety? What are the most promising directions for translational research pertaining to this condition? The present paper provides an integrative summary of basic and applied translational research on social anxiety, emphasizing vulnerability factors. It is divided into two subsections: intrapersonal and interpersonal. The intrapersonal section synthesizes research relating to (a) self-representations and self-referential processes; (b) emotions and their regulation; and (c) cognitive biases: attention, interpretation and judgment, and memory. The interpersonal section summarizes findings regarding the systems of (a) approach and avoidance, (b) affiliation and social rank, and their implications for interpersonal impairments. Our review suggests that the science of social anxiety and, more generally, psychopathology may be advanced by examining processes and their underlying content within broad psychological systems. Increased interaction between basic and applied researchers to diversify and elaborate different perspectives on social anxiety is necessary for progress.PMID:38493675 | DOI:10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102415

Source: Clinical Psychology Review - March 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rivkah Ginat-Frolich Eva Gilboa-Schechtman Jonathan D Huppert Idan M Aderka Lynn E Alden Yair Bar-Haim Eni S Becker Amit Bernstein Ronny Geva Richard G Heimberg Stefan G Hofmann Todd B Kashdan Ernst H W Koster Joshua Lipsitz Jon K Maner David A Moscovitch Source Type: research