dc.contributor.author
Golde, Sabrina
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Ludwig, Sophie
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Lippoldt, Sven
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Rimpel, Jérôme
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Schulze, Lars
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Haucke, Matthias
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Renneberg, Babette
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Heinzel, Stehphan
dc.date.accessioned
2023-08-10T13:33:09Z
dc.date.available
2023-08-10T13:33:09Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/40434
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-40155
dc.description.abstract
Background and objectives:
Current cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) propose that individual, situationspecific self-beliefs are central to SAD. However, the role of differences in the degree to which individuals with social anxiety are convinced of self-beliefs, in particular positive ones, is still not fully understood. We compared how much high and low socially anxious individuals agree with their own negative and positive self-beliefs. Furthermore, we investigated whether agreeing with one’s self-belief can explain the relation between negative affect in response to self-beliefs and social anxiety. Specifically, we were interested whether social anxiety increases negative affect in response to self-beliefs through an increase in agreement.
Methods:
We developed a new experimental self-belief task containing positive and negative semi-idiosyncratic, situation specific self-beliefs typical of high social anxiety and included a direct measure of agreement with these beliefs. Using extreme group sampling, we a-priori selected high (n = 51) and low (n = 50) socially anxious individuals. By multi-level mediation analysis, we analyzed agreement with self-beliefs in both groups and its association with affect.
Results:
High and low socially anxious individuals chose similar self-beliefs. However, high socially anxious individuals (HSA) agreed more with negative self-beliefs and less with positive selfbeliefs compared to low socially anxious individuals (LSA). HSA individuals reported increased negative affect after both, exposition to negative and positive self-beliefs compared to LSA. We found that social anxiety increases affective responses towards negative- self beliefs through an increase in agreeing with these self-beliefs.
Conclusions:
These findings suggest that cognitive models of social anxiety can be improved by including not only the content of a self-belief but also the strength of such a belief. In addition, they emphasize the relevance of positive self-beliefs in social anxiety, which has frequently been overlooked.
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17 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
social anxiety
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dc.subject
self-beliefs
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dc.subject
affective response
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
dc.title
Negative and positive self-beliefs in social anxiety: The strength of believing mediates the affective response
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
e0281387
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Plos One
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
Plos
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
18
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281387
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
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Arbeitsbereich Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
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Die Publikation ist aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1932-6203