Psychological inflexibility explains social anxiety over time: a mediation analyses with a clinical adolescent sample.

ABSTRACT: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) has its usual onset during adolescence when it is a highly prevalent and debilitating condition. Evidence regarding the processes that underline social anxiety and SAD is not compelling, especially in adolescents. Within an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework, the causal role of ACT processes on adolescents' social anxiety and how these processes contribute to sustain social anxiety over time is still unknown. Hence, this study explored the role of psychological inflexibility (PI) and acceptance and committed action (as psychological flexibility processes) on social anxiety over time, in a clinical sample of adolescents. Twenty-one adolescents (Mage = 16.19, SD = 0.750) with a primary diagnosis of SAD completed a set of self-report measures asses

SUBMITTER: Figueiredo DV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10117271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature