Negative and positive self-beliefs in social anxiety: The strength of believing mediates the affective response.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Current cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) propose that individual, situation-specific self-beliefs are central to SAD. However, the role of differences in the degree to which individuals with social anxiety are convinced of self-beliefs, in particular positive ones, is still not fully understood. We compared how much high and low socially anxious individuals agree with their own negative and positive self-beliefs. Furthermore, we investigated whether agreeing with one's self-belief can explain the relation between negative affect in response to self-beliefs and social anxiety. Specifically, we were interested whether social anxiety increases negative affect in response to self-beliefs through an increase in agreement.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Golde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016721 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature