Does Shame-proneness Enhance our Understanding of Social Anxiety beyond Classical Cognitive Constructs?

Several studies indicate that shame-proneness is associated with social anxiety symptoms. Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder and empirical studies assume that this association can be explained through the presence of distorted thinking patterns such as irrational beliefs and more specific n...

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Published in:Transylvanian journal of psychology 2014-01, Vol.15 (1), p.33-47
Main Authors: Candea, Diana-Mirela, Szentágotai-Tatar, Aurora
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Beliefs
Cognition
Fear & phobias
Human behaviour
Irrationality
Medical research
Shyness
Studies
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Summary:Several studies indicate that shame-proneness is associated with social anxiety symptoms. Cognitive models of social anxiety disorder and empirical studies assume that this association can be explained through the presence of distorted thinking patterns such as irrational beliefs and more specific negative global self-evaluations, in both shame and social anxiety. In this study we sought to investigate whether the contribution of shame-proneness to social anxiety symptoms is a unique one, distinct from that of negative global self-evaluation and other irrational beliefs. Results indicate the shame-proneness explains a unique and significant proportion of the variance in social anxiety symptoms, beyond the variance explained by negative global self-evaluation [R2=.11, F (1, 126)= 20.38, p
ISSN:1454-797X
2286-0525