Social phobia and interpretation of social events
Stopa, Lusia and Clark, David M. (2000) Social phobia and interpretation of social events. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38, (3), 273-283. (doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00043-1).
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Description/Abstract
It has been suggested that social phobia may be characterized by two interpretation biases. First, a tendency to interpret ambiguous social events in a negative fashion. Second, a tendency to interpret unambiguous but mildly negative social events in a catastrophic fashion. To assess this possibility, patients with generalized social phobia, equally anxious patients with another anxiety disorder, and non-patient controls were presented with ambiguous scenarios depicting social and non-social events, and with unambiguous scenarios depicting mildly negative social events. Interpretations were assessed by participants' answers to open-ended questions and by their rankings and belief ratings for experimenter-provided, alternative explanations. Compared to both control groups, patients with generalized social phobia were more likely to interpret ambiguous social events in a negative fashion and to catastrophize in response to unambiguous, mildly negative social events.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0005-7967 (print) |
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| Keywords: | social phobia, anxiety, phobia, interpretation |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology |
| Item ID: | 40248 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2013 14:29 |
| Contributors: | Stopa, Lusia (Author) Clark, David M. (Author) |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | L.Stopa@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/40248 |
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