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dc.contributor.advisor | Maranzan, Amanda | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pitura, Victoria A. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-28T17:02:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-06-28T17:02:27Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2019 | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5189 | - |
dc.description.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. [...] | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Social anxiety | en_US |
dc.subject | Multidimensional anxiety sensitivity | en_US |
dc.subject | Perfectionism and social anxiety | en_US |
dc.title | Predicting cognitive and bhavioural responses to social situations: exploring the roles of anxiety sensitivity and perfectionism | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
etd.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
etd.degree.level | Doctoral | en_US |
etd.degree.discipline | Psychology : Clinical | en_US |
etd.degree.grantor | Lakehead University | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Mazmanian, Dwight | - |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Mushquash, Aislin | - |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Naragon-Gainey, Kristin | - |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009 |
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