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Title: | Predicting cognitive and bhavioural responses to social situations: exploring the roles of anxiety sensitivity and perfectionism |
Authors: | Pitura, Victoria A. |
Keywords: | Social anxiety;Multidimensional anxiety sensitivity;Perfectionism and social anxiety |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Abstract: | Despite their relevance to social anxiety (SA), few studies have examined the influence of perfectionism and anxiety sensitivity on SA-maintaining factors such as anticipatory and post- event processing (i.e., repetitive negative thinking before and after social situations), self-focused attention (i.e., detailed self-monitoring in response to anxiety), safety behaviours (i.e., strategies aimed at reducing anxiety), and observer perspective self-imagery (i.e., spontaneously occurring mental self-images from an observer perspective). This study explored the relative effects of multidimensional anxiety sensitivity (physical/cognitive/social concerns) and perfectionism (trait socially prescribed perfectionism/perfectionistic self-presentation/perfectionistic cognitions) on each of these SA-maintaining factors. Additionally, we explored whether differences emerged when SA-maintaining factors were measured at a trait (i.e., dispositional) or state (i.e., situational) level. In Part One, university students (N = 376) completed online measures of trait SA, perfectionism, and anxiety sensitivity, as well as perfectionistic self-presentation and cognitions, SA-maintaining factors, and depression. Fear of the social consequences of anxiety (anxiety sensitivity social concerns) and perfectionistic self-presentation uniquely predicted trait anticipatory and post-event processing, self-focused attention, and safety behaviours. Perfectionistic cognitions also predicted anticipatory processing, while post-event processing was additionally influenced by a tendency to fear cognitive symptoms of anxiety (cognitive concerns) and socially prescribed perfectionism. In Part Two, a subsample of participants (N = 158) attended an in-lab session where they engaged in two prototypical social situations (speech and interaction) and reported on state levels of each SA-maintaining factor in response to the stressor. [...] |
URI: | https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5189 |
metadata.etd.degree.discipline: | Psychology : Clinical |
metadata.etd.degree.name: | Doctor of Philosophy |
metadata.etd.degree.level: | Doctoral |
metadata.dc.contributor.advisor: | Maranzan, Amanda |
metadata.dc.contributor.committeemember: | Mazmanian, Dwight Mushquash, Aislin Naragon-Gainey, Kristin |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 |
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