Self-evaluations in social anxiety: The combined role of explicit and implicit social-rank

Symptoms and beyond: Self-concept among sexually assaulted women.

“…Higher scores reflect higher self-evaluations. The task was adopted from Berger, Keshet, and Gilboa-Schechtman (2017), and the traits were chosen based on a pilot study in which 28 students rated 50 traits on social rank and affiliation. Traits were selected if they were rated as high (above the 75th percentile) or low (below the 25th percentile) on one domain and as neutral (between the 25th and 75th percentiles) on the other.…”

Not intended, still embarrassed: Social anxiety is related to increased levels of embarrassment in response to unintentional social norm violations

“…Previous studies have indicated that SAD-patients experience disturbances in self-referential processing and have biases concerning the opinion of others about them: they have increased self-portrayal concerns [9], for example when it concerns their social rank [10, 11] or their own social performance [12, 13], they overestimate the negative consequences of their own social blunders [14] and are characterized by negatively biased learning about themselves from social feedback [15]. Furthermore, clinical SAD is associated with an increased belief in negative interpretations of social situations [16] and SAD-patients focus predominantly on potentially embarrassing events when they evaluate themselves in a social context [17].…”

Social anxiety is related to dominance but not to affiliation as perceived by self and others: A real-life investigation into the psychobiological perspective on social anxiety

“…Individuals with social anxiety disorder however, tend to perceive themselves as not being competent enough and are not inclined to signal any competences that they may nevertheless feel they have (e.g., Alden & Wallace, 1991;Creed & Funder, 1998;Hofmann, 2007;Hope et al, 1998). Thus, socially anxious individuals tend to view themselves as subordinate to others (Berger, Keshet, & Gilboa-Schechtman, 2017;Gilbert, 2000Gilbert, , 2001Russell et al, 2011;Weeks et al, 2011). For socially anxious individuals, the alternative is therefore to signal signs of appeasement and submissiveness to avoid conflict and rejection by others.…”

“…Some of them found that social anxiety was related to decreased dominance and decreased affiliation (Alden & Phillips, 1990;Walters & Hope, 1998;Weisman, Aderka, Marom, Hermesh, & Gilboa-Schechtman, 2011). Other studies showed that social anxiety was more strongly related to decreased dominance than to decreased affiliation however (Aderka et al, 2009;Berger et al, 2017;Trower et al, 1998). Also, a study by Oakman et al (2003) showed that although social anxiety was negatively related to both warmth and dominance on self-report measures, it was only negatively related to dominance when rated by others.…”