Psychometric assessment of an online self-test measuring risky eating behavior, depression, social anxiety, and self-injury in Mexican adolescents - G ómez-Peresmitré G, Platas-Acevedo RS, León-Hernández R, Pineda-García G, Guzmán-Saldaña R.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of OTESSED, an online test for the self-detection and prevention of risk factors for eating disorders and related problems, such as depression, social anxiety, and self-injury, in sam... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Does authentic self-esteem buffer the negative effects of bullying victimization on social anxiety and classroom concentration? Evidence from a short-term longitudinal study with early adolescents - Boulton MJ, Macaulay PJR.
BACKGROUND: Bullying victimization is a risk factor for social anxiety and disrupted classroom concentration among young people. Self-esteem has been implicated as a protective factor, but extant literature is sparse. AIMS: Aim of present study was to test... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Relational victimization and video game addiction among female college students during COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of social anxiety and parasocial relationship - Niu G, Jin S, Xu F, Lin S, Zhou Z, Longobardi C.
Video game addiction, a common behavioral problem among college students, has been more prominent during the COVID-19 pandemic; at the same time, females' video game usage has also attracted considerable research attention. Against this background and unde... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 26, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Feel Awkward? This Founder Wants to Fix Your Social Anxiety.
Why do some people struggle to make friends while others have no trouble at all? David Morin, now the founder of startup SocialSelf, wanted an answer to that question — but nobody seemed to have one.#davidmorin (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Effect of rejection sensitivity on the development of anxious-depressive attack in Japanese outpatients: the mediating roles of rumination, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms - Noda S, Masaki M, Kishimoto T, Kaiya H.
OBJECTIVE: Anxious-depressive attack (ADA) is a cluster of symptoms, including sudden and intense anxiety or depression, intrusive rumination about negative memories or future worries, prominent agitation, impatient behavior, and/or loneliness; in some cas... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents - Kowalchuk A, Gonzalez SJ, Zoorob RJ.
Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric conditions in children and adolescents, affecting nearly 1 in 12 children and 1 in 4 adolescents. Anxiety disorders include specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Social anxiety and suicidality in youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Leigh E, Chiu K, Ballard ED.
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people every year. Identifying risk factors provides opportunities to intervene, and social anxiety may represent one such factor. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to review the evidence of asso... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Social anxiety and pre-party motives are associated with alcohol-related negative consequences during college students' most recent pre-party occasion - Walukevich-Dienst K, Blayney JA, Fairlie AM, Jaffe AE, Larimer ME.
OBJECTIVE: Engaging in hazardous drinking behaviors, such as playing drinking games or pre-partying, is associated with excessive drinking and negative consequences among college students. Pre-partying or playing drinking games often occurs in anticipation... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Scary in the eye of the beholder: attentional bias and attentional retraining for social anxiety - Fadardi JS, Memarian S, Parkinson J, Cox WM, Stacy AW.
Consistent with cognitive models of social anxiety, socially anxious individuals show cognitive biases that magnify their perceived level of threat in the environment. OBJECTIVES: The first objective was to determine whether attentional bias for so... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Using substances to cope with social anxiety: associations with use and consequences in daily life - Walukevich-Dienst K, Calhoun BH, Fairlie AM, Cadigan JM, Patrick ME, Lee CM.
OBJECTIVE: Using substances to cope with social anxiety is robustly related to negative consequences. The present study uses daily-level methods to test whether days young adults used substances to cope with social anxiety were associated with greater alco... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 30, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news
Building Closer Friendships in social anxiety disorder: a randomized control trial of an internet-based intervention - Mueller NE, Cougle JR.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Loneliness is an important factor in mental and physical health. People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) often report high levels of loneliness, which may be maintained by difficulties with intimacy. Building Closer Friendships... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 29, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
External locus of control but not self-esteem predicts increasing social anxiety among bullied children - Graham B, Bowes L, Ehlers A.
BACKGROUND: Elevated social anxiety is more likely among bullied children than those who have not been bullied but it is not inevitable and may be influenced by cognitive factors. Lower self-esteem and more external locus of control are associated with bul... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Cognitive bias modification for threat interpretations: using passive mobile sensing to detect intervention effects in daily life - Daniel KE, Mendu S, Baglione A, Cai L, Teachman BA, Barnes LE, Boukhechba M.
Background Social anxiety disorder is associated with distinct mobility patterns (e.g., increased time spent at home compared to non-anxious individuals), but we know little about if these patterns change following interventions. The ubiquity of GPS-enable... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - November 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Mindfulness Worked as Well as an Anxiety Drug in a New Study
Mindfulness meditation worked as well as a standard drug for treating anxiety in the first head-to-head comparison.
The study tested a widely used mindfulness program that includes 2 1/2 hours of classes weekly and 45 minutes of daily practice at home. Participants were randomly assigned to the program or daily use of a generic drug sold under the brand name Lexapro for depression and anxiety.
After two months, anxiety as measured on a severity scale declined by about 30% in both groups and continued to decrease during the following four months.
Study results, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, are timely....
Source: TIME: Health - November 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsey Tanner/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Mental Health wire Source Type: news
Prospective associations of text-message-based sentiment with symptoms of depression, generalized anxiety, and social anxiety - Stamatis CA, Meyerhoff J, Liu T, Sherman G, Wang H, Liu T, Curtis B, Ungar LH, Mohr DC.
OBJECTIVE: Language patterns may elucidate mechanisms of mental health conditions. To inform underlying theory and risk models, we evaluated prospective associations between in vivo text messaging language and differential symptoms of depression, generaliz... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news
