Having versus not having social interactions in patients diagnosed with depression or social phobia and controls.

ABSTRACT: Humans need meaningful social interactions, but little is known about the consequences of not having them. We examined meaningful social interactions and the lack thereof in patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) or social phobia (SP) and compared them to a control group (CG). Using event-sampling methodology, we sampled participants' everyday social behavior 6 times per day for 1 week in participants' natural environment. We investigated the quality and the proportion of meaningful social interactions (when they had meaningful social interactions) and degree of wishing for and avoidance of meaningful social interactions (when they did not have meaningful social interactions). Groups differed on the quality and avoidance of meaningful social interactions: Participants with

SUBMITTER: Villanueva J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8046242 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature