Social anxiety and dissociation: the moderating role of emotion regulation
| Autor: | Matthew A. Cook, Amie R. Newins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Coping (psychology)
Dissociation (neuropsychology) Social Psychology medicine.drug_class 05 social sciences Social anxiety 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Dissociative 050105 experimental psychology Distress Public university medicine Anxiety 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences medicine.symptom Acute stress Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Motivation and Emotion. 45:345-353 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6644 0146-7239 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11031-021-09875-5 |
| Popis: | Social anxiety is associated with dissociative experiences, which are thought to occur when coping or avoidance is unavailable, and distress is experienced. Emotion regulation difficulties maintain social anxiety. The current study examined the moderating effect of emotion regulation on social anxiety and dissociation. It was hypothesized that social anxiety would be positively associated with dissociation and that emotion regulation difficulties would moderate the relationship between social anxiety and dissociation such that the relationship would be stronger at higher levels of emotion regulation difficulties. College students aged 18 or older (n = 572) were recruited from a large public university. All participants completed measures of social anxiety, emotion regulation, and dissociation as part of a larger online study. Results supported both hypotheses. Future studies should investigate dissociative symptoms during times of acute stress or anxiety in social anxiety, how emotion regulation difficulties are associated with the genesis of dissociative symptoms, and how these variables are related in more diverse community samples. |
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