Threat-related automatic associations in socially anxious adolescents
| Autor: | Peter J. de Jong, B. Esther Sportel, Maaike H. Nauta, Eva de Hullu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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SYMPTOMS Adolescent Psychometrics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology CHILDREN Adolescents INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES Developmental psychology Association Intervention (counseling) IMPLICIT YOUNG-ADULTS medicine Humans ANXIETY PHOBIA Child Social anxiety EXPLICIT Implicit-association test Cognition Social cue medicine.disease Self Concept Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Phobic Disorders Social Perception Implicit association test Anxiety COGNITION Female NEGATIVE EVALUATION SCALE Cues medicine.symptom Psychology Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49(8), 518-522. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
| ISSN: | 0005-7967 |
| Popis: | Threat-related automatic associations are assumed to play an important role in the development and maintenance of social anxiety. We tested whether threat-related automatic associations are already evident in high socially anxious adolescents, by comparing a group of adolescents (age 12-15) with subclinical levels of social anxiety (n = 170) to a group of low socially anxious adolescents (n = 193). We used a single-target implicit association test to measure threat-related automatic associations to social cues. Results showed that indeed in high socially anxious adolescents social cues automatically elicited relatively strong threat-related associations. Supporting the relevance of differentiating between automatic and more explicit measures, both automatic and explicit associations were independently associated with adolescents' level of self-reported social anxiety. The present pattern of findings is not only consistent with the view that automatic and more deliberate threat-related associations are both involved in the etiology of social-anxiety symptoms, but also suggest that both types of associations are proper targets for early intervention programs. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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