Fear of terrorism and its correlates in young men and women from the United States and South Korea - Hong F, Lin Y, Jang M, Tarullo A, Ashy M, Malley-Morrison K.
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine associations between fear of terrorism and several predictors (gender and nationality) and outcomes (moral disengagement, authoritarianism, aggression and social anxiety) in the USA and South Korean young ad... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
Loneliness, social anxiety symptoms, and depressive symptoms in adolescence: longitudinal distinctiveness and correlated change - Danneel S, Geukens F, Maes M, Bastin M, Bijttebier P, Colpin H, Verschueren K, Goossens L.
Loneliness, social anxiety symptoms, and depressive symptoms are internalizing problems that are highly intertwined and often co-occur during adolescence. This overlap and co-occurrence raises the question whether three different labels are used for the sa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Anxiolytic effects of acute and maintenance ketamine, as assessed by the Fear Questionnaire subscales and the Spielberger State Anxiety Rating Scale - Truppman Lattie D, Nehoff H, Neehoff S, Gray A, Glue P.
This study aimed to assess changes following acute and maintenance ketam... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Diagnostic and dimensional evaluation of implicit reward learning in social anxiety disorder and major depression - Reilly EE, Whitton AE, Pizzagalli DA, Rutherford AV, Stein MB, Paulus MP, Taylor CT.
OBJECTIVE: Increasing evidence supports the presence of an anhedonic endophenotype in major depressive disorder (MDD), characterized by impairments in various components of reward processing, particularly incentive motivation, effort-based decision making,... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Children with social anxiety, maternal history of depression more likely to develop depression
(Binghamton University) Although researchers have known for decades that depression runs in families, new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, suggests that children suffering from social anxiety may be at particular risk for depression in the future. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
The role of empathy and social anxiety in Latinx adolescents' indirect peer aggression during the transition to high school - Tarlow N, La Greca AM.
The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between decreased empathy (i.e., cognitive and affective) and indirect and cyber peer aggression among Latinx adolescents during their transition to high school. Further, we examined the de... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Why browsing and posting on WeChat moments? The relationships among fear of missing out, strategic self-presentation, and online social anxiety - Duan W, He C, Tang X.
This study examined the mediating and moderating roles of positive and honest self-presentations in the relationship between fear of missing out (FoMO) and online social anxiety (OSA). A total of 796 social media users were recruited online. These particip... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Anxiety sensitivity and social anxiety in adults with psychodermatological symptoms - Ellison L, Witcraft SM, Dixon LJ.
Many dermatology patients experience social anxiety symptoms; however, few studies have investigated vulnerabilities contributing to this distress. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), or the fear of the consequences of anxiety, warrants consideration given its assoc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructions Source Type: news
Fear of missing out impacts people of all ages
(Washington State University) The social anxiety that other people are having fun without you, also known as FoMO, is more associated with loneliness, low self-esteem and low self-compassion than with age, according to a recent study led by Washington State University psychology professor Chris Barry. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Emotional support as a mechanism linking childhood maltreatment and adult's depressive and social anxiety symptoms - Fitzgerald M, Gallus K.
BACKGROUND: Research has well-established that childhood maltreatment is associated with depressive and social anxiety symptoms in adults. Emotional support has been proposed as a mediator, yet research investigating the unique contributions of emotional s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
A person-centered longitudinal analysis of adolescents' loneliness and social anxiety: clusters, predictors, and outcomes - Zhu X, Huebner ES, Tian L.
The research examined whether clusters of loneliness and social anxiety could be identified through latent profile analysis in a longitudinal study of 892 Chinese adolescents (47.8% male), on average 12.96 (SD = 0.62) years old. Six clusters were identifie... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Mindfulness-based interventions for adolescent social anxiety: a unique convergence of factors - Carlton CN, Sullivan-Toole H, Strege MV, Ollendick TH, Richey JA.
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a debilitating and often chronic psychiatric disorder that typically onsets during early adolescence. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), the current "gold-standard" treatment for SAD, tends to focus on threat- and fear-based... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Coming to Terms with Unreality
When I was 14 years old, I entered my freshman year of high school feeling nothing but a dull sense of disquietude. I was not happy to be starting the new school year. I was always “the quiet kid”, and that label only rang truer over time, as I retreated further into my shell with each passing school year. I had few friends, and the ones I had were fair-weather, frequently passing up hanging out with me in favor of others. I knew in the back of my mind that I should feel stressed or upset when the year began, but I just felt empty.
My late childhood and early adolescence, meant to be a time of growth and learning, in...
Source: Psych Central - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Renee Consorte Tags: Dissociative disorders Personal Stories Adolescence Depersonalization Derealization Dissociation Resentment Social Anxiety Source Type: news
The effect of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on social anxiety and aggressive behaviors in primary school children - Zolrahim R, Azmoudeh M.
Background and Purpose: Social anxiety and aggressive behaviors are common childhood problems that have been studied in different ways in recent years. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cognitive-behavioral play therapy on social anx... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Measuring associations between social anxiety and use of different types of social media using the Swedish Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users: a psychometric evaluation and cross-sectional study - Erliksson OJ, Lindner P, M örtberg E.
Research on the association between social anxiety and social media usage remains inconclusive: despite the preference for computer-mediated communication there is currently no clear empirical support for social anxiety being associated with longer duratio... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news
