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Social Anxiety in Adolescents and Appraisal of Negative Events: Specificity or Generality of Bias?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

Idunn Magnúsdótir  and
Jakob Smári
Idunn Magnúsdótir
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Science, University of Iceland
Jakob Smári*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Science, University of Iceland
*
Jakob Smári, Faculty of Social Science, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland. E-mail: jakobsm@rhi.hi.is
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Abstract

The role of appraisal of negative events in social anxiety of adolescents was studied. One-hundred and sixty-eight Icelandic pupils between the ages of 13 and 15 years completed the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C), Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI), and measures of situational appraisal. Social anxiety was found to be specifically related to the appraisal as threatening of negative social events happening to the self. These relationships remained when depression was partialized out, whereas the reverse was not true. On the whole, the results support the notion of judgmental specificity in relation to social anxiety in adolescents.

Keywords

Social anxietydepressionthreat appraisal
Type
Main Section
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 223 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1999

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