The psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure in social anxiety disorder

Harb, Gerlinde C.; Heimberg, Richard G.; Fresco, David M.; Schneier, Franklin R.; Liebowitz, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/s0005-7967(01)00125-5

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“…Although some reassurance-seeking could reflect adaptive solicitation of social support (Blatt, Quinlan, Chevron, McDonald, & Zuroff, 1982;Joiner, Metalsky, Katz, & Beach, 1999), a pattern of intense emotional exchanges around a teen's problems may be indicative of someone needing continual reassurance and lacking self-confidence, who is thus vulnerable to FNE and social anxiety. Similarly, excessive dependency in relationships has been linked with social anxiety (Harb, Heimberg, Fresco, Schneier, & Liebowitz, 2002;Overholser & Freiheit, 1994). Finally, social comparison processes are also likely to lead to opportunities to identify ways in which one does not "measure up" and may be subject to negative evaluation by others (Baumeister et al, 2004;Stiles & Kaplan, 2004).…”

Section: Social Behavior With Peermentioning

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Development of Social Anxiety: Social Interaction Predictors of Implicit and Explicit Fear of Negative Evaluation

Teachman

Allen

2006

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Little is known about how to predict which individuals with known temperament vulnerabilities will go on to develop social anxiety problems. Adolescents (N = 185) were followed from age 13 to 18 to evaluate psychosocial, prospective predictors of social anxiety symptoms and fears of negative evaluation (FNE), after accounting for pre-existing social withdrawal symptoms. Results from structural equation modeling suggest that lack of perceived social acceptance predicts subsequent explicit social anxiety and FNE, whereas the emotional intensity of close peer interactions predicts subsequent implicit FNE. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of peer interaction in the development of social anxiety, and the value of measuring both implicit and explicit FNE. KeywordsSocial anxiety; Fear of negative evaluation; Implicit; Peer interaction Social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation (FNE) are risk factors for numerous maladaptive outcomes, including depression (Stein, Tancer, Gelernter, Vittone, & Uhde, 1990), restricted development of interpersonal relationships (Schneier, Johnson, Hornig, Leibowitz, & Weissman, 1992), poor academic functioning (Turner, Beidel, Dancu, & Keys, 1986), and heightened risk for substance abuse (Page & Andrews, 1996). Given the serious consequences that can follow from social anxiety symptoms, it is essential to determine which individuals are most vulnerable. Although broad vulnerability factors have been known for some time, such as a withdrawn, behaviorally inhibited temperament (e.g., Biederman et al., 1993), little is known about how to predict which particular individuals will go on to develop social anxiety later in life, suggesting the importance of intervening life experiences in the manifestation of anxiety (Turner, Beidel, & Wolff, 1996). Specifically, " prospective studies of children characterized as shy or behaviorally inhibited suggest that a proportion of them will develop anxiety during adolescence. However, to date, it is unclear how to determine which children are likely to develop more severe disorders." (Beidel, Morris, & Turner, 2004, p. 147).In part, this difficulty has arisen because of the paucity of longitudinal, prospective data to shed light on the intervening psychosocial factors and life experiences that exacerbate a given predisposition to become socially anxious (though see exciting work byMorris, 2001;Warren, Huston, Egeland, & Sroufe, 1997, among others NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript sectional and retrospective studies have suggested the importance of the familial environment, peer relationships, information processing styles and conditioning experiences as critical to the etiology of social anxiety (see excellent reviews by Beidel & Turner, 1998;Hudson & Rapee, 2000;Vasey & Dadds, 2001), it has been difficult to account for the potential influence of biases in recall or the temporal ambiguity inherent in retrospective and cross-sectional studies. Thus, the current study followed a prospect...

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Section: Social Behavior With Peermentioning

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Development of Social Anxiety: Social Interaction Predictors of Implicit and Explicit Fear of Negative Evaluation

Teachman

Allen

2006

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…These results suggest the absence of a general proclivity toward forming aversive associations among subjects with social anxiety disorder. Nevertheless, the involvement of a more specific proclivity among social anxiety patients to form aversive associations between socially relevant unconditioned stimuli (e.g., a humiliating experience) and co-occurring neutral conditioned stimuli (i.e., people, places, and things) remains to be tested.In the present study, subjects with social anxiety and gender-and age-matched healthy comparison subjects underwent differential fear conditioning within a novel paradigm incorporating socially stressful unconditioned stimuli with demonstrated relevance to social anxiety disorder, such as critical facial expressions (14,15) and derogatory verbal feedback (16,17). Neutral facial expressions served as conditioned stimuli and were repeatedly paired with the aversive unconditioned stimulus.…”

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“…In the present study, subjects with social anxiety and gender-and age-matched healthy comparison subjects underwent differential fear conditioning within a novel paradigm incorporating socially stressful unconditioned stimuli with demonstrated relevance to social anxiety disorder, such as critical facial expressions (14,15) and derogatory verbal feedback (16,17). Neutral facial expressions served as conditioned stimuli and were repeatedly paired with the aversive unconditioned stimulus.…”

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Elevated Fear Conditioning to Socially Relevant Unconditioned Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder

Lissek¹,

Levenson

Biggs

et al. 2008

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Objective-Though conditioned fear has long been acknowledged as an important etiologic mechanism in social anxiety disorder, past psychophysiological experiments have found no differences in general conditionability among social anxiety patients using generally aversive but socially nonspecific unconditioned stimuli (e.g., unpleasant odors and painful pressure). The authors applied a novel fear conditioning paradigm consisting of socially relevant unconditioned stimuli of critical facial expressions and verbal feedback. This study represents the first effort to assess the conditioning correlates of social anxiety disorder within an ecologically enhanced paradigm.Method-Subjects with social anxiety disorder and age-and gender-matched healthy comparison subjects underwent differential classical conditioning. Conditioned stimuli included images of three neutral facial expressions, each of which was paired with one of three audiovisual unconditioned stimuli: negative insults with critical faces (US neg ), positive compliments with happy faces (US pos ), or neutral comments with neutral faces (US neu ). The conditioned response was measured as the fear-potentiation of the startle-blink reflex elicited during presentation of the conditioned stimuli.Results-Only social anxiety subjects demonstrated fear conditioning in response to facial expressions, as the startle-blink reflex was potentiated by the CS neg versus both CS neu and CS pos among those with the disorder, while healthy comparison subjects displayed no evidence of conditioned startle-potentiation. Such group differences in conditioning were independent of levels of anxiety to the unconditioned stimulus, implicating associative processes rather than increased unconditioned stimulus reactivity as the active mechanism underlying enhanced conditioned startlepotentiation among social anxiety subjects.Conclusions-Results support a conditioning contribution to social anxiety disorder and underscore the importance of disorder-relevant unconditioned stimuli when studying the conditioning correlates of pathologic anxiety.Fear conditioning, the associative learning process by which a neutral conditioned stimulus acquires the capacity to elicit fear following its repeated pairing with an aversive unconditioned stimulus, features prominently in etiologic accounts of social anxiety disorder (1-3). In this context, the unconditioned stimulus consists of a time-limited humiliating experience and the conditioned stimuli are those stimuli associatively linked to the unconditioned stimulus (i.e., Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Lissek, NIMH, NIH, 15K North Dr., Rm. 200, Bethesda, MD 20892-2670; lisseks@mail.nih.gov (e-mail people, places, and things) (1). Conditioning is thought to contribute to the onset and course of social anxiety disorder by conferring anxiogenic valence to conditioned stimuli that are then capable of sustaining social anxiety beyond the presence of the time-limited unconditioned stimulus.Theories regarding conditioning and soci...

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“…심각한 사회적 기능의 장해 (Aderka et al, 2012)를 초래할 뿐 만 아니라 대인관계의 어려움으로 인한 사회적 부적응 (Harb et al, 2002), 취업 실패 (Wittchen et al, 2000), 알코올 중독 (Thomas et al, 2003) 등의 사회적 문제로까지 확대될 가능성이 높은 정신과적 질환이기 때문에 이에 대한 사회 적 대책과 관심이 필요하다 (Acarturk et al, 2008). (Pozo et al, 1991;Clark et al, 1995).…”

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The Moderating Effect of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Self-Focused Attention and Social Anxiety

Shim¹,

Lee²

2016

STRESS

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The purpose of the study was to test moderating role of self compassion in the relationship between self-focused attention and social anxiety. Scale for Dispositional Self-focused Attention in Social situation, Self-Compassion Scale, and Social Avoidance and Distress Scale were administered to a sample of 425 undergraduate students. The result was as follows: First, Correlation analysis was conducted to examine the relation among self-focused attention, self-compassion, social anxiety. Self-focused attention was positive significantly correlated social anxiety. In contrast, self-compassion was negative significantly correlated social anxiety. Second, self-compassion interacted with self-focused attention such that it played a more prominent role in protecting against social anxiety symptoms during lower self-focused attention than during higher self-focused attention. This result suggested the importance of self-focused attention and self-compassion in psychological approach to university students who have difficulty in social anxiety. (Korean J Stress Res 2016;24:65∼74)

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The psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Sensitivity Measure in social anxiety disorder

Cited by 131 publications

References 39 publications

Development of Social Anxiety: Social Interaction Predictors of Implicit and Explicit Fear of Negative Evaluation

Development of Social Anxiety: Social Interaction Predictors of Implicit and Explicit Fear of Negative Evaluation

Elevated Fear Conditioning to Socially Relevant Unconditioned Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder

The Moderating Effect of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Self-Focused Attention and Social Anxiety

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