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
The prevalence of social anxiety and its relationship with tendency to addiction and sleep quality among high school students in Divandareh in 2018 - Valizadeh Ardalan P, Servatyari K, Mardani N, Yazdanpanah H.
INTRODUCTION: Tendency toward addiction in adolescence can affect not only the youth but also whole life periods of an individual. Recent studies indicated that addiction is a severe and progressive issue in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Moving Beyond the Anxiety and Perfectionism Feedback Loop
Forget everything you thought you knew about anxiety and perfectionism. Here’s an inside look at what actually works.
We all feel the need to be accepted, to fit in, feel loved, and that we matter to someone or something.
As someone who struggles with anxiety myself, I understand how hard it is to combat the anxiety feedback loop. As a psychologist who has worked with this material for nearly a decade, I supposedly know all the tricks in the book. I have a tool kit 10 pages deep ready to go whenever I experience a bout of anxiety. Even still, I struggle to practice what I preach.
Moving beyond this feedback loop indu...
Source: Psych Central - July 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jennifer Anders, PsyD. Tags: Anxiety Perfectionism Psychology Intrusive Thoughts Self Worth Self-Esteem Source Type: news
Time course of attentional bias in social anxiety: the effects of spatial frequencies and individual threats - Dong X, Gao C, Guo C, Li W, Cui L.
Hypervigilance and attentional bias to threat faces with low-spatial-frequency (LSF) information have been found in individuals with social anxiety. The vigilance-avoidance hypothesis posits that socially anxious individuals exhibit initial vigilance and l... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Factor Prevalence, Injury Occurrence Source Type: news
The link between social anxiety and intimate loneliness is stronger for older adults than for younger adults - Hoffman YSG, Grossman ES, Bergman YS, Bodner E.
OBJECTIVES: The current study focuses on the association between social anxiety (e.g. fear of social interactions or negative judgment by others) and intimate loneliness (lacking meaningful relationships, i.e. having low quantity/quality of intimate compan... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Behavioral inhibition in childhood as a risk factor for development of social anxiety disorder: a longitudinal study - Luis-Joaquin GL, Lourdes EF, Jos é A MM.
Previous research has suggested the association between behavioral inhibition (BI) and the development of social anxiety disorder in childhood. However, there is scarce research using longitudinal methodology in Spanish-speaking populations. To cover this ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
D-Cycloserine for Social Anxiety: Does Timing Matter? D-Cycloserine for Social Anxiety: Does Timing Matter?
D-cycloserine appears to augment exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder. But does timing of the drug matter?Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines - June 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Effectiveness of a culturally adapted cognitive behavioural therapy-based guided self-help (CACBT-GSH) intervention to reduce social anxiety and enhance self-esteem in adolescents: a randomized controlled trial from Pakistan - Amin R, Iqbal A, Naeem F, Irfan M.
BACKGROUND: Social anxiety is common among adolescents in Pakistan and is associated with low self-esteem. Among the recommended treatments, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is effective, and self-help approaches are encouraged.
AIM: To determine th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Moderation effect of emotion regulation on the relationship between social anxiety, drinking motives and alcohol related problems among university students - Kim S, Kwon JH.
This study aimed to elucid... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 24, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Validation of the AUDIT scale and factors associated with alcohol use disorder in adolescents: results of a National Lebanese Study - Hallit J, Salameh P, Haddad C, Sacre H, Soufia M, Akel M, Obeid S, Hallit R, Hallit S.
This study objective was to evaluate the prevalence of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and related factors (smoking, internet addiction, social anxiety, child abuse, and bullying) among a representative sample of Lebanese adolescents, and to validat... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 16, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Fight and flight: examining putative links between social anxiety and youth aggression - Andrews LA, Brothers SL, Sauv é JS, Nangle DW, Erdley CA, Hord MK.
Somewhat surprisingly, social anxiety has been linked with aggressive behavior in adults. Among youth, this connection has been demonstrated with anxiety symptoms more broadly. This review extends previous work by evaluating this association specifically w... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - May 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Large differences in personality traits between patients with social anxiety disorder
(Uppsala University) Individuals with social anxiety disorder have markedly different personality traits than others. Emotional instability and introversion are hallmarks, according to a new study from Uppsala University published in PLOS ONE. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
The Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing an Anxiety Pandemic
As the physical coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, an emotional pandemic is following fast in its wake. When the whole world is going to pieces, it’s awfully hard for the human mind—a fragile thing in the best of times—to cope, and more and more, doctors are reporting the spread of despair, worry and depression among their patients, especially those already suffering from some form of anxiety disorder.
Even before COVID-19 hit its shores, the U.S. was a clinically anxious place. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, just over 19% of all American adults will experience at least one a...
Source: TIME: Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Co-occurring trajectories of depression and social anxiety in childhood and adolescence: interactive effects of positive emotionality and domains of chronic interpersonal stress - Griffith JM, Long EE, Young JF, Hankin BL.
Deficits in positive emotionality (PE) have been implicated in the etiology of both social anxiety and depression; however, factors that contribute to divergent social anxiety and depression outcomes among youth low in PE remain unknown. Extant research su... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
