Dissertations / Theses: 'Social phobia'

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Marteinsdóttir, Ína. "Aspects of Social Phobia." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Neuroscience, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3323.

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Social phobia is a disabling, lifelong disorder characterised by fear in social settings.

The aim of the present study was to gain more knowledge about diagnostic, neurobiologic and epidemiologic aspects of social phobia.

Thirty-two individuals were assessed by the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I and II psychiatric disorders, the Karolinska Scales of Personality and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Social phobia was accompanied by concurrent axis I disorders in about 28% of individuals, lifetime axis I disorders in 54%, personality disorders in 60%, and avoidant personality disorder (APD) in 47%. This suggests that there is a high comorbidity between social phobia and APD according to the DSM-IV criteria. The personality profiles associated with social phobia were dominated by anxiety-related traits that were primarily related to social phobia itself and not to the presence of concurrent personality disorders.

Eighteen subjects with social phobia and eighteen controls were investigated with positron emission tomography and the radiolabeled serotonin precursor, [3 -11C]–5-HTP (5-HTP). Individuals with social phobia demonstrated proportionally lower regional relative whole brain accumulation of 5-HTP in areas of the frontal and temporal cortices as well as the striatum, but higher accumulation in the cerebellum. This suggests that there are imbalances in presynaptic serotonin function in individuals with social phobia, although this could only be confirmed in men, and not in women.

By means of a postal survey, distributed to 2000 randomly selected individuals, social phobia in Sweden was found to be common, with a point prevalence of 15.6%.

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Marteinsdóttir, Ína. "Aspects of social phobia /." Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3323.

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Maki, Kristen M. "The Effects of Stress Induction on Pre-attentive and Attentional Bias for Threat in Social Anxiety." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MakiKM2003.pdf.

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Heiser, Nancy A. "Differentiating social phobia from shyness." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2025.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Yeganeh, Robin. "Social phobia and occupational functioning." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2877.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: Psychology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Leeke, Rachel. "Attentional biases in social phobia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421195.

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Sutterby, Scott. "NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING IN SOCIAL PHOBIA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4061.

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The purpose of the current study was to clarify the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying social phobia. Previous research has identified some specific group differences in neurocognitive functioning between individuals diagnosed with social phobia and nonpsychiatric controls, but has failed to administer a comprehensive neuropsychological battery to a social phobia patient group, resulting in a piecemeal understanding of the neurocognitive functioning of this population and an incomplete picture of the neuropsychological profile inherent to this group. The present research utilized a broader collection of neuropsychological tests to assess nine cognitive domains: Verbal Learning, Verbal Delayed Memory, Visual Immediate Memory, Visual Delayed Memory, Visual-Spatial Processing, Verbal Working Memory, Visual Working Memory, Executive Functioning, and Attention. A mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) did not reveal a significant group by cognitive domain interaction, nor a significant main effect of group. As this was the first study to examine multiple cognitive domains in a single sample of individuals with generalized social phobia, exploratory univariate analyses were performed to examine group differences for the specific cognitive domains. This revealed significant group differences specific to the Visual Working Memory domain, with the social phobia group scoring significantly lower than the nonpsychiatric control group. Implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
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Department of Psychology
Sciences
Psychology PhD

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Rutherford, Donna Lynn. "Cognitive biases for social cues in social phobia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421197.

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Mansell, Warren. "Cognitive processes in social anxiety and social phobia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389302.

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Ononaiye, Margarita Sylvia Pearl. "Attentional biases in social anxiety and social phobia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3574/.

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Clark and Wells (1995) argued that individuals with social phobia attend solely towards internal threat, whereas Beck, Emery and Greenberg (1985) and Rapee and Heimberg (1997) proposed that social phobics attend towards internal and external threat cues, during a social encounter. With this in mind, the aim was to investigate attentional processing in social anxiety and social phobia using the dot-probe task. Findings depend in part on which aspects of social anxiety are measured and used to select groups, therefore an exploration of the psychometric properties of the Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE: Watson & Friend, 1969) and the Social Avoidance and Distress (SAD: Watson & Friend, 1969) scales was undertaken. Experiment one investigated conscious processing in high (n = 40) and low (n = 40) socially anxious participants. The results showed that the high socially anxious attended towards negative evaluation words (non-evaluative condition) and somatic sensation words (social-evaluative condition), compared to the low socially anxious. Experiment two explored pre-attentive and conscious attentional processing. A pre-attentional bias towards physical threat words was evident in the high socially anxious (n = 41), compared to the low socially anxious participants (n = 41), under social-evaluative conditions. There were no more significant findings. Experiment three investigated conscious attentional processing in generalised social phobics (n = 16) and low anxious controls (n = 16). The results revealed that individuals with generalised social phobia attended towards the physical threat words, compared to the matched controls. Study four examined the psychometric characteristics of the FNE and SAD. The FNE comprised of a fear of negative evaluation factor and the SAD a social avoidance and distress and a fear of new situations and strangers factor. The findings overall showed that attentional biases in social anxiety and social phobia can be specific to certain aspects of threat and modified by changes in level and cause of state anxiety.

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Rushforth, Jennifer. "The relational self in social phobia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505820.

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Leichsenring, Falk, Jürgen Hoyer, Manfred Beutel, Sabine Herpertz, Wolfgang Hiller, Eva Irle, Peter Joraschky, et al. "The Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-133684.

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This paper presents the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network. The research program encompasses a coordinated group of studies adopting a standard protocol and an agreed-on set of standardized measures for the assessment and treatment of social phobia (SP). In the central project (study A), a multicenter randomized controlled trial, refined models of manualized cognitive-behavioral therapy and manualized short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy are compared in the treatment of SP. A sample of 512 outpatients will be randomized to either cognitive-behavioral therapy, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy or waiting list. Assessments will be made at baseline, at the end of treatment and 6 and 12 months after the end of treatment. For quality assurance and treatment integrity, a specific project using highly elaborated measures has been established (project Q). Study A is complemented by 4 interrelated add-on projects focusing on attachment style (study B1), on cost-effectiveness (study B2), on variation in the serotonin transporter gene in SP (study C1) and on structural and functional deviations of the hippocampus and amygdala (study C2). Thus, the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network program enables a highly interdisciplinary research into SP. The unique sample size achieved by the multicenter approach allows for studies of subgroups (e.g. comorbid disorders, isolated vs. generalized SP), of responders and nonresponders of each treatment approach, for generalization of results and for a sufficient power to detect differences between treatments. Psychological and biological parameters will be related to treatment outcome, and variables for differential treatment indication will be gained. Thus, the results provided by the network may have an important impact on the treatment of SP and on the development of treatment guidelines for SP
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Dannahy, Laura. "Post-event processing in social phobia and social anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412692.

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Dennis, Gregory Brent. "Social phobia and social anxiety continuous or discontinuous constructs? /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1991. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9136876.

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Gamble, Caroline. "Information processing biases in social anxiety and social phobia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494531.

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Furmark, Tomas. "Social Phobia. From Epidemiology to Brain Function." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Psychology, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-546.

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Social phobia is a disabling anxiety disorder characterized by an excessive fear of negative evaluation in social situations. The present thesis explored the epidemiology and neurobiology of the disorder. By means of a mailed questionnaire, the point prevalence of social phobia in the Swedish general population was estimated at 15.6%. However, prevalence rates varied between 1.9 and 20.4% across the different levels of distress and impairment used to define cases. Thus, although social anxiety is widespread within the community, the precise diagnostic boundaries for social phobia are difficult to determine. Social phobia was associated with female gender, low educational attainment, psychoactive medication use, and lack of social support. A cluster analysis revealed that subtypes of social phobia mainly differed dimensionally on a mild-moderate-severe continuum, with number of cases declining with increasing severity. Public speaking was the most common social fear in all groups of social phobics and in the population at large.

In the neurobiological studies, positron emission tomography was used to examine brain serotonin metabolism and changes in the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) response to public speaking stress following treatment with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) or cognitive-behavioral group therapy. Social phobics exhibited lowered serotonin turnover, relative to non-phobics, mainly in the medial temporal cortex including the bilateral rhinal and periamygdaloid regions. Symptom improvement with cognitive-behavioral- as well as SSRI-treatment was accompanied by a reduced rCBF-response to public speaking in the amygdala, hippocampus and adjacent temporal cortex, i.e. regions that serve important functions in anxiety. Thorough suppression of rCBF in limbic brain regions was associated with favorable long-term treatment outcome. These results provide neuroimaging evidence for a presynaptic serotonergic dysfunction in social phobia and for a common neural mechanism whereby psychological and pharmacological anti-anxiety treatments act.

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Littler, Sophie. "Attentional and interpretation biases in social phobia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442850.

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Tillfors, Maria. "Social Phobia : The Family and the Brain." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2001. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-554-5096-2/.

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Hulme, Natalie. "Imagery and the self in social phobia." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/163081/.

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Current cognitive models (Clark & Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg, 1997) emphasise the importance of negative self-images in the maintenance of social phobia. Although evidence suggests that in social phobia these images influence some cognitive, affective and behavioural responses in social situations, it is unclear how they exert their effect. The literature review examines the proposition that these images function as self-representations that have their roots in autobiographical memory. The role of self-images, within a theoretical model of self and autobiographical memory is explored (i.e., the Self-Memory System; Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000). A possible relationship between self-images and the working self (i.e., the current self-view) is discussed as a useful framework within which the effects of negative self-images in social phobia could be understood. Research is proposed which will begin to empirically test this relationship. The empirical paper investigates the effect of positive and negative self-images on difference aspects of the self. Negative self-images were associated with a weaker positive implicit selfesteem bias, and less positive and more negative explicit self-esteem, in both high and low socially anxious participants. Negative self-images were also associated with reduced self-concept clarity, but only in low socially anxious participants. Following social threat activation, the increase in self-esteem associated with positive selfimagery was still evident. Findings provide some support for a relationship between self-imagery and specific self-evaluative components of the self. The potential contribution of this relationship to the persistence of social phobia is discussed.

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Mick, Michele Annette. "Cognitive biases in shyness and social phobia /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Konstantinidi, Eva. "Implicit and relational self in social phobia and social anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437854.

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Santos, Nomara. "Asperger's disorder and social phobia : a comparison of social functioning." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1324.

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Sciences
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Dawans, Bernadette von. "Neuropeptidergic modulation of social behavior in health and social phobia." Göttingen Cuvillier, 2008. http://d-nb.info/991710258/04.

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White, Sam. "Recollections of humiliation in individuals with social phobia." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275296.

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Domanska, Beschell Agatha. "Informal measures of self-assessment in social phobia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0018/MQ47997.pdf.

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Fehm, Lydia, Antoine Pelissolo, Thomas Furmark, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "Size and burden of social phobia in Europe." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-108615.

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This paper provides a critical review of the prevalence of social phobia in European countries, a description of associated disability and burden and of clinical correlates and risk factors associated with social phobia. On the basis of a comprehensive literature search we identified 21 community studies and two primary care studies. The median lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates of social phobia in community samples referring to DSM-III-R and DSM-IV criteria were 6.65% and 2.0%, respectively. Younger individuals showed the highest rates, and women were more frequently affected than men. Social phobia was shown to be a persistent condition with a remarkably high degree of comorbid conditions, associated impairment and disability. Research deficits lie in a lack of data for most EU countries and in a lack of studies in children and the elderly. No data are available addressing met and unmet needs for intervention and costs, and data for vulnerability and risk factors of malignant course are scarce.

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Pugh, M. A. "Self-criticism in social phobia : a qualitative analysis." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/966720/.

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This thesis is divided into three parts. Part one reviews research and theoretical literature exploring the role of shame in social phobia. The results indicate that high shame represents a core feature of social phobia. Whether shame derives from, or generates, social phobia remains unclear. Part two is an empirical paper which explores self-criticism in social phobia using a qualitative methodology. The results of the study identify six distinct categories of self-criticism which maintain social phobic symptoms through the lowering of self-efficacy. Part three provides a critical appraisal of the empirical study. A number of issues arising during the research are discussed including difficulties collecting the data, the implications of the findings in terms of the conceptualisation and treatment of social phobia, and the author's personal reflections upon the process of conducting the research.

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Fehm, Lydia, Antoine Pelissolo, Thomas Furmark, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "Size and burden of social phobia in Europe." Technische Universität Dresden, 2005. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A26762.

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This paper provides a critical review of the prevalence of social phobia in European countries, a description of associated disability and burden and of clinical correlates and risk factors associated with social phobia. On the basis of a comprehensive literature search we identified 21 community studies and two primary care studies. The median lifetime and 12-month prevalence rates of social phobia in community samples referring to DSM-III-R and DSM-IV criteria were 6.65% and 2.0%, respectively. Younger individuals showed the highest rates, and women were more frequently affected than men. Social phobia was shown to be a persistent condition with a remarkably high degree of comorbid conditions, associated impairment and disability. Research deficits lie in a lack of data for most EU countries and in a lack of studies in children and the elderly. No data are available addressing met and unmet needs for intervention and costs, and data for vulnerability and risk factors of malignant course are scarce.

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Graver, Christopher James. "The neurobiological effects of stress in social phobia /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147822.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 113-126). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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James, Michelle. "Post-event processing : its role in social phobia and social anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419002.

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Knappe, Susanne, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Lydia Fehm, Roselind Lieb, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "Characterizing the association between parenting and adolescent social phobia." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-120015.

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Objectives: For characterizing the association between parenting and offspring social phobia (SP), contrasting maternal vs. paternal contributions, putative predictors of unfavorable parenting behaviors and its specificity for SP are warranted to delineate targeted prevention and intervention strategies. Methods: A population-based sample of 1053 adolescents was followed-up using the M-CIDI. Parenting was assessed via questionnaire in offspring passing the high risk period for SP-onset. Natal complications and childhood serious health problems as assessed by maternal reports were hypothesized to relate to unfavorable parenting. Results: The pattern of maternal overprotection, paternal rejection and lower emotional warmth was associated with SP, but not with other offspring anxiety disorders. Natal complications were related to overprotection and lower emotional warmth; trend-level associations emerged for serious health problems and unfavorable parenting. Conclusions: Paternal behavior appears particularly relevant for SP. The pattern of maternal overprotection, paternal rejection and lower emotional warmth was observed in SP only, suggesting that its detailed assessment provides a promising opportunity for targeted prevention and intervention in SP.

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Tanner, Rachael Jane. "Dysfunctional beliefs in social anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288411.

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Leichsenring, Falk, Jürgen Hoyer, Manfred Beutel, Sabine Herpertz, Wolfgang Hiller, Eva Irle, Peter Joraschky, et al. "The Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network: The First Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial of Psychotherapy for Social Phobia: Rationale, Methods and Patient Characteristics." Karger, 2009. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27526.

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This paper presents the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network. The research program encompasses a coordinated group of studies adopting a standard protocol and an agreed-on set of standardized measures for the assessment and treatment of social phobia (SP). In the central project (study A), a multicenter randomized controlled trial, refined models of manualized cognitive-behavioral therapy and manualized short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy are compared in the treatment of SP. A sample of 512 outpatients will be randomized to either cognitive-behavioral therapy, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy or waiting list. Assessments will be made at baseline, at the end of treatment and 6 and 12 months after the end of treatment. For quality assurance and treatment integrity, a specific project using highly elaborated measures has been established (project Q). Study A is complemented by 4 interrelated add-on projects focusing on attachment style (study B1), on cost-effectiveness (study B2), on variation in the serotonin transporter gene in SP (study C1) and on structural and functional deviations of the hippocampus and amygdala (study C2). Thus, the Social Phobia Psychotherapy Research Network program enables a highly interdisciplinary research into SP. The unique sample size achieved by the multicenter approach allows for studies of subgroups (e.g. comorbid disorders, isolated vs. generalized SP), of responders and nonresponders of each treatment approach, for generalization of results and for a sufficient power to detect differences between treatments. Psychological and biological parameters will be related to treatment outcome, and variables for differential treatment indication will be gained. Thus, the results provided by the network may have an important impact on the treatment of SP and on the development of treatment guidelines for SP.
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Dalrymple, Kristy L. Herbert James D. "Acceptance and commitment therapy for generalized social anxiety disorder : a pilot study /." Philadelphia, Pa. : Drexel University, 2005. http://dspace.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/610.

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Manning, Jocelyn. "Representations of self and others in social anxiety / phobia." University of Western Australia. School of Psychology, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2004.0079.

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Fear of negative evaluation by others has been a central construct in psychological research in social anxiety and social phobia. Fear of negative evaluation by others in individuals with social anxiety/phobia suggests that these individuals hold different beliefs about themselves and others, and about how others see them, than do people who do not experience fear of negative evaluation. This thesis will examine the role of beliefs about self and others in social anxiety/phobia; specifically, how people high and low on social anxiety/phobia evaluate themselves (private self-referent representations), how they believe they are evaluated by others (public self-referent representations) and how they evaluate other people (other-referent representations). Recent models of social anxiety/phobia have differed in the emphasis they place on these various representations of self and others. Five studies addressed this issue by assessing these representations in people high and low on social anxiety/phobia. Previous investigations of the above representations have mostly employed self-report measures, which suffer from serious limitations. The current research employs both self-report measures and performance-based measures to provide a picture of explicit and implicit beliefs or representations about self, about other people and about how people think they are viewed by others. It also assesses how these representations differ in relation to positive, as well as negative, cognitions

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Clarke, Greg. "Appraisal biases in social phobia : A startle probe methodology." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500731.

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Wallace, Kasie. "Risk Factors Identified in College Students Exhibiting Social Phobia." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1653.

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College life is a unique experience in the life of many young adults that presents many challenges for which they might not be prepared, including living away from home and adapting to a new social and academic environment. In particular, these experiences may be particularly adverse for students with social phobia and may be predictors of academic and social problems, and may even predict dropout. The purpose of the present research is to identify possible connections between socially phobic tendencies and the social, emotional, and overall well-being of college students. Social phobia itself is an unnecessary and overwhelming fear of being scrutinized by others (National Institute of Mental Health 2009). By implementing the use of four psychological tests: the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, College Affiliation Questionnaire, and Life Orientation Test, this research sought to investigate the correlations existing between college students' self-reports on these measures through the use of the UCF Sona system. Students' personal characteristics and demographics were also examined correlationally along with their self-reports on all four measures. A total of 165 participants were used in this study. After gathering descriptive statistics from each test and their demographics, correlations were run between the four tests and then between demographic information and tests. The results showed social phobia having a positive correlation with negative affect and a negative relationship with positive affect. In turn, negative emotion was correlated with a lowered overall life orientation and a more pessimistic mindset. No strong correlations were identified between psychological tests and student characteristics as was previously thought. Overall, there are definite indicators that social anxiety has a negative impact on one's quality of life and emotions, however, more research needs to be done with more diverse sampling and different methodology to see if there is a link between particular student characteristics and prevalence rates of social anxiety within those characteristic subsets.
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Bachelors
Psychology
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Knappe, Susanne, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Lydia Fehm, Roselind Lieb, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. "Characterizing the association between parenting and adolescent social phobia." Technische Universität Dresden, 2012. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27095.

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Objectives: For characterizing the association between parenting and offspring social phobia (SP), contrasting maternal vs. paternal contributions, putative predictors of unfavorable parenting behaviors and its specificity for SP are warranted to delineate targeted prevention and intervention strategies. Methods: A population-based sample of 1053 adolescents was followed-up using the M-CIDI. Parenting was assessed via questionnaire in offspring passing the high risk period for SP-onset. Natal complications and childhood serious health problems as assessed by maternal reports were hypothesized to relate to unfavorable parenting. Results: The pattern of maternal overprotection, paternal rejection and lower emotional warmth was associated with SP, but not with other offspring anxiety disorders. Natal complications were related to overprotection and lower emotional warmth; trend-level associations emerged for serious health problems and unfavorable parenting. Conclusions: Paternal behavior appears particularly relevant for SP. The pattern of maternal overprotection, paternal rejection and lower emotional warmth was observed in SP only, suggesting that its detailed assessment provides a promising opportunity for targeted prevention and intervention in SP.

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Puliafico, Anthony. "Threat-related attentional bias in adolescents with social phobia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/15238.

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Psychology
Ph.D.
The present study compared attentional disengagement from threat-related stimuli in socially phobic (SP) and non-anxiety-disordered (NAD) adolescents. The associations between trait anxiety and state anxiety and attentional bias in SP adolescents were assessed. Furthermore, the present study compared the attentional control abilities of SP and NAD adolescents. Twenty-eight SP participants aged 12-17 and 27 NAD controls, matched on age and IQ, were administered a computer task to measure attentional disengagement from threat-related words. Participants completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and subtests of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-ch). Mixed ANOVA analyses indicated that SP and NAD adolescents did not differ in their disengagement from threat-related stimuli. Correlational analyses indicated that state anxiety was associated with disengagement from threat, but only when SP participants with comorbid ADHD were excluded from analyses. Trait anxiety was not significantly associated with attentional disengagement from threat. Finally, SP participants performed more poorly than NAD participants on the TEA-ch subtests, indicating poorer attentional control in SP participants. These results suggest that SP adolescents experience a deficit in executive attentional skills. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
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Hall, Tyish S. "Is test anxiety a form of specific social phobia?" College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2548.

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Lavery, Kristin A. "The relationship between social skills, social phobia and behavior disorders in adolescents /." View online, 1997. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211130738310.pdf.

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Nortje, Charl. "Kognitiewe terapie en blootstelling in die behandeling van sosiale fobie." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51810.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of a combined exposure and cognitive restructuring programme versus exposure only in the treatment of social phobia. The 44 participants in the study met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for social phobia at pre-treatment assessment, and presented mainly with general interactional social fears. They were allocated to a group which received a combined exposure and cognitive restructuring treatment (n = 15), a group treated with exposure only (n = 15), and a waiting-list control group (n = 14). For treatment purposes, both treatment groups were subdivided into two smaller groups of 7 and 8 participants each. The effects and differential effects of the treatments were compared in terms of four broad categories of variables: target phobia variables (anxiety/avoidance/escape in relation to a specific target phobia), social phobia variables (associated with the degree, nature, aspects and/or consequences of social phobia), cognitive variables (thought functionality, fear-of-negative-evaluation, and attentional bias), and severity of depression. Participants were individually assessed before treatment, immediately after treatment, and at follow-up after three months. Treatment were conducted by two co-therapists in 12 weekly group sessions of two hours each. Compared to a waiting-list control condition, both treated groups showed a significant improvement of the target phobia variables at post-treatment and, with the exception of target phobia anxiety for the exposure only condition, the significant effects were maintained at follow-up after three months. As for the social phobia variables, cognitive restructuring and exposure combined showed a significantly larger improvement compared to the waiting-list control condition on four of the variables (social phobia avoidance, social phobia observation anxiety, social phobia general symptomatology, and social phobia disturbance/disablement), and these significant effects were maintained at follow-up. The exposure only group showed significantly larger effects on only two variables (social phobia avoidance and social phobia disturbance/disablement) and only the effects on social phobia avoidance were maintained for the followup period of three months. With regard to the cognitive variables, the combined treatment led to significanly larger improvements in thought functionality compared to the waiting-list control condition and these effects were maintained at follow-up. No other significant differences between the effects of any of the treatments and the waiting-list control condition were demonstrated at post-treatment or at follow-up on any of the cognitive variables. Only the combined treatment resulted in significantly larger reductions in the severity of depression, The effects were maintained for the follow-up period of three months. Compared to the waiting-list control condition, the combined treatment resulted in improvement over a broader spectrum of social phobia symptomatology than exposure only at post-treatment and follow-up. The two treatments were also directly compared in terms of their effects on each of the dependent variables and the differences were largely insignificant at both post-treatment and follow-up. Only in terms of thought functionality tentative indications of a possible larger effect for the combined treatment were found. However, if this was the case, the differences were cancelled out at follow-up. It seems that both the combined treatment and exposure only were effective treatments for social phobia and that the combined treatment might have demonstrated slightly better results. These findings support the emerging view that the most important cognitive-behavioral treatments of social phobia do not differ greatly in terms of efficacy. It also offer support for the view of prominent researchers on social phobia outcome, namely that treatment effects are less dependent on procedural variations than on other critical elements, such as the length and frequency of treatment sessions, and exposure to the critical elements of patients' social fears.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie was om die effektiwiteit van 'n gekombineerde blootstelling en kognitiewe herstruktureringsprogram teenoor blootstelling alleen in die behandeling van sosiale fobie te ondersoek en te vergelyk. Die 44 deelnemers aan die studie het voor behandeling aan die DSM-IV diagnostiese kriteria vir sosiale fobie voldoen en met oorwegend algemene interaksionele vrese gepresenteer. Hulle is verdeel in 'n groep wat met kognitiewe herstrukturering en blootstelling gekombineerd behandel is (n = 15), 'n groep wat slegs blootstelling ontvang het (n = 15), en 'n waglys-kontrolegroep (n = 14). Vir behandelingsdoeleindes is die behandelingsgroepe in twee subgroepe van onderskeidelik 7 en 8 deelnemers elk verdeel. Die effekte en differensiële effekte van die behandelings is in terme van die volgende vier breë kategorieë veranderlikes ondersoek: teikenfobie-veranderlikes (angslvermyding/ontsnapping ten opsigte van 'n spesifieke fobie), sosialefobie-veranderlikes (wat verband hou met die graad, aard, aspekte en/of gevolge van sosiale fobie), kognitiewe veranderlikes (gedagte-funksionaliteit, vrees-vir-negatiewe-evaluasie en aandagsverdraaiing), en graad van depressie. Deelnemers is individueel beoordeel voor behandeling, onmiddellik na afloop daarvan en na 'n 3- maande-opvolgperiode. Behandeling deur twee ko-terapeute het in 12 weeklikse groepsessies van twee uur elk geskied. In vergelyking met die waglys-kontrolekondisie, het beide behandelings tot 'n beduidende verbetering van die teikenfobie-veranderlikes by nameting gelei en, met uitsondering van teikenfobie-angs by die blootstellingsbehandeling, is die beduidende effekte vir 'n opvolgperiode van drie maande volgehou. Wat die sosialefobie-veranderlikes betref, het kognitiewe herstrukturering plus blootstelling 'n beduidend groter verbetering in vergelyking met die waglys-kontrolekondisie op vier veranderlikes (sosialefobievermyding, sosialefobie-observasie-angs, sosialefobie-algemenesimptomato/ogie, en sosialefobieongemak/ belemmering) tot gevolg gehad en is die beduidende effekte vir 'n opvolgperiode van drie maande volgehou. Daarenteen het die blootstellingsgroep slegs ten opsigte van twee veranderlikes (sosialefobie-vermyding en sosialefobie-ongemak/belemmering) tot beduidend groter effekte aanleiding gegee, waarvan die effekte net op een van die twee veranderlikes (sosialefobie-vermyding) vir 'n opvolgperiode van drie maande in stand gehou is. Ten opsigte van die kognitiewe veranderlikes, het kognitiewe herstrukturering plus blootstelling, in vergelyking met die waglys-kontrolekondisie, tot 'n beduidende verbetering van gedagte-funksionaliteit gelei wat vir 'n opvolgperiode van drie maande in stand gehou is. Geen ander beduidende verskille tussen die effekte van behandelings en die waglys-kontrolekondisie is vir enige van die ander kognitiewe veranderlikes by nameting of opvolg gedemonstreer nie. Slegs die gekombineerde behandeling het tot beduidend groter verlagings van die graad van depressie gelei wat vir 'n opvolgperiode van drie maande gehandhaaf is. In vergelyking met die waglys-kontrolekondisie, het die gekombineerde behandeling dus tot 'n beduidende verbetering oor 'n breër basis van sosialefobie-simptomatologie as blootstelling alleen by nameting en opvolg aanleiding gegee. Die twee behandelings is ook direk met mekaar in terme van effekte op elkeen van die afhanklike veranderlikes vergelyk en die verskille was by nameting en opvolg grootliks onbeduidend. Dit is slegs ten opsigte van gedagte-funksionaliteit dat daar tentatiewe aanduidings was dat die gekombineerde behandeling moontlik 'n beduidend groter verbeterende effek as blootstelling alleen kon gehad het, maar indien dit so was, was hierdie verskille by die opvolgmeting reeds uitgewis. Dit wil dus voorkom asof beide die gekombineerde behandeling en blootstelling alleen effektiewe behandelings vir sosiale fobie was en dat eersgenoemde dalk effens beter resultate kon gelewer het. Hierdie resultate ondersteun die standpunt wat tans besig is om op grond van navorsing te ontwikkel, naamlik dat daar nie betekenisvolle groot verskille in die effektiwiteit van die belangrikste kognitiefgedragsterapeutiese behandelings van sosiale fobie is nie. Dit bied ook steun vir die standpunt van prominente navorsers op die gebied van sosiale fobie uitkomsnavorsing dat behandelingseffek minder afhang van verskille in prosedure-variasies as van ander kritieke elemente, soos byvoorbeeld die lengte en frekwensie van die behandelingsessies en blootstelling aan die kritieke elemente van die sosiale vrese.

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Chavira, Denise April. "The relationship between shyness and social phobia : issues in validity /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9952667.

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Bell, Jane Esther Louise. "Anticipatory attentional shifts and post-event processing in social phobia." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445853.

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Chaker, Samia, Elisa Haustein, Jürgen Hoyer, and Jonathan R. T. Davidson. "Ein Interview zur Erfassung sozialer Ängste unter Einbeziehung von Körpersymptomen." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-132778.

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Die Brief Social Phobia Scale – German version (BSPS-G) ist ein Kurzinterview zum Screening sozialer Ängste. Dabei werden Schwere oder Verlauf einer bereits diagnostizierten sozialen Angststörung erfasst. Im Folgenden wird der Hintergrund dargelegt und eine Kurzbeschreibung des englischsprachigen Originals (BSPS) gegeben: Die soziale Phobie ist gekennzeichnet durch ausgeprägte und anhaltende Angst, sich in sozialen oder Leistungssituationen peinlich zu verhalten, gedemütigt zu werden oder bestimmte Körpersymptome zu zeigen (Diagnostisches und Statistisches Manual psychischer Störungen, DSM-IV-TR [Saß et al., 2003]). Die Prävalenzraten liegen zwischen 6,7% [Fehm et al., 2005] und 12,1% [Kessler et al., 2005] und bei bis zu 25% für subklinische Ängste, die in Schwere und Beeinträchtigung häufig dem Vollbild ähnlich sind [Beesdo et al., 2007; Knappe et al., 2009]. Zur diagnostischen Erfassung der sozialen Phobie liegen zahlreiche Selbsteinschätzungsverfahren vor, aber kaum Fremdbeurteilungsverfahren [Mitte et al., 2007]. Als Interviewverfahren hat sich die Liebowitz Skala (Liebowitz Soziale Angst Skala, LSAS) [Stangier und Heidenreich, 2005] etabliert. Die BSPS hat demgegenüber die Vorteile, dass sie viel ökonomischer ist und explizit typische Körpersymptome erfasst, die soziale Ängste sowohl begleiten als auch auslösen können. Die Validierung der englischsprachigen Originalversion der BSPS zeigte sehr gute Kennwerte für die Test-Retest-Reliabilität (rtt = 0,91) und die interne Konsistenz (Cronbachs α = 0,82) sowie gute konvergente und diskriminante Validität und Änderungssensitivität. Als Cut-Off-Wert wurde ein Summenwert von 20 Punkten bestimmt [Davidson et al., 1997]
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Spurr, Jane. "The observer perspective : its role in the maintenance of social phobia and social anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340306.

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Rushbrook, Sophie Catherine. "Post-event processing : its role in the maintenance of social phobia and social anxiety." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273900.

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Schofield, Casey Anne. "Recognition of facial expressions of emotion in social anxiety." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Grillon, Helena. "Simulating interactions with virtual characters for the treatment of social phobia /." Lausanne : EPFL, 2009. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=4466.

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Thèse Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, no 4466 (2009), Faculté informatique et communications IC, Programme doctoral Informatique, Communications et Information, Institut des systèmes informatiques et multimédias ISIM (Laboratoire de réalité virtuelle VRLAB). Dir.: Daniel Thalmann.

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Brunello, Nicoletta, Boer Johan A. den, Lewis L. Judd, Siegfried Kasper, Jeffrey E. Kelsey, Malcolm Lader, Yves Lecrubier, et al. "Social phobia: diagnosis and epidemiology, neurobiology and pharmacology, comorbidity and treatment." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-112851.

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Social phobia is a common disorder associated with significant psychosocial impairment, representing a substantial public health problem largely determined by the high prevalence, and the lifelong chronicity. Social phobia starts in early childhood or adolescence and is often comorbid with depression, other anxiety disorders, alcohol and substance abuse or eating disorders. This cascade of comorbidity, usually secondary to social phobia, increases the disability associated with the condition. The possibility that social phobia may be a trigger for later developing comorbid disorders directs attention to the need for early effective treatment as a preventive measure. The most recent drug class to be investigated for the psychopharmacological treatment of social phobia is the SSRI group for which there is growing support. The other drug classes that have been evaluated are monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), benzodiazepines, and beta-blockers. The SSRIs represent a new and attractive therapeutic choice for patients with generalized social phobia. Recently the first, large scale, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy of drug treatment in generalized social phobia has been completed with paroxetine. Paroxetine was more effective in reducing the symptoms than placebo and was well tolerated. Many now regard SSRIs as the drugs of choice in social phobia because of their effectiveness and because they avoid the problems of treatment with benzodiazepines or classical MAOIs.

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