“Social Anxiety Disorder Carved at its Joints”: Evidence for the taxonicity of social anxiety disorder

Addressing revisions to the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation scale: Measuring fear of negative evaluation across anxiety and mood disorders

“…The current results are in line with evidence that SAD symptoms (Reilly, Carleton, & Weeks, 2011) and FNE both have a latent taxonic structure that results in people with SAD being quantitatively and qualitatively different from people without SAD (Kollman, Brown, Liverant, & Hofmann, 2006;Weeks, Carleton, Asmundson, McCabe, & Antony, 2010). In comparing the various diagnostic groups, there was clear evidence in line with current models (Clark & Wells, 1995;Rapee & Heimberg, 1997) that people diagnosed with SAD consistently report significant and robustly higher levels of FNE relative to all other diagnostic groups.…”

The relations between social anxiety and social intelligence: A latent variable analysis

“…Firstly, there is evidence that the structure of social anxiety disorder is best conceptualized as a dimensional distribution and not as a categorical classification (Kollman, Brown, Liverant, & Hofmann, 2006;Weeks, Norton, & Heimberg, 2009). In contrast, a recent study conducted by Weeks, Carleton, Asmundson, McCabe, and Antony (2010) found evidence for considering social anxiety disorders as having a taxonic latent structure. Taking a sample from the general population allows the assessment of a large range of social anxiety, whereas a clinical sample would only take into consideration high levels of socially anxious characteristics.…”

Failure to capitalize on sharing good news with romantic partners: Exploring positivity deficits of socially anxious people with self-reports, partner-reports, and behavioral observations

“…Existing research provides strong evidence that social anxiety is best conceptualized as a dimensional construct, and definitions of clinically significant severity are arbitrary (e.g., Kollman, Brown, Liverant, & Hofmann, 2006; Ruscio, 2010; Weeks, Carleton, Asmundson, McCabe, & Antony, 2010). Our research can thus be viewed as further interpersonal approaches to social anxiety and social anxiety disorder.…”