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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The looming maladaptive style in social anxiety |
Author: | Brown, M. Stopa, L. |
Citation: | Behavior Therapy, 2008; 39(1):57-64 |
Publisher: | Assoc Adv Behavior Therapy |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
ISSN: | 0005-7894 1878-1888 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Michael A. Brown and Lusia Stopa |
Abstract: | This exploratory study examined the relationship between the looming maladaptive style (i.e., an enduring and traitlike cognitive pattern to appraise threat as rapidly rising in risk, progressively worsening, or actively speeding up and accelerating) and three different aspects of trait social anxiety (i.e., fear of negative evaluation, social interaction anxiety, and public scrutiny fears) as well as general anxiety and depression. A large nonclinical, female-only sample (n = 152) completed the Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire–II (Riskind, J. H., Williams, N. L., Theodore, L. G., Chrosniak, L. D., & Cortina, J. M. (2000). The looming maladaptive style: Anxiety, danger, and schematic processing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 837–852), which assesses two types of looming vulnerability: social (i.e., looming appraisals in response to potentially threatening social situations) and physical (i.e., looming appraisals in response to potentially threatening physical stimuli). Multiple regression analyses indicated that social looming uniquely predicted fear of negative evaluation, social interaction anxiety, and public scrutiny fears, accounting for 7%, 4%, and 3% of the variance, respectively. However, social looming did not predict depression. These findings support the looming model of anxiety and encourage further attention to the possible role of social looming as an anxiety-specific vulnerability factor in social anxiety. |
Keywords: | Humans Risk Assessment Regression Analysis Adaptation, Psychological Depression Social Adjustment Anxiety Personality Phobic Disorders Models, Psychological Adolescent Adult Middle Aged Female Male |
Description: | Copyright © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ScienceDirect® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.beth.2007.04.004 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2007.04.004 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Medicine publications |
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