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The Maintaining Factors of Social Anxiety: A Three-Group Comparison of a Clinical Sample with Highly Socially Anxious Students and Non-Anxious Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

Sonja Skocic ,
Henry Jackson ,
Carol Hulbert  and
Christina Faber
Sonja Skocic*
Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Henry Jackson
Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Carol Hulbert
Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Christina Faber
Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne, Australia
*
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Abstract

Background: Clark and Wells' (1995) cognitive model of social anxiety (CWM) explains the maintenance of social anxiety and has been used as a guide for treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Few studies have examined the components of the model together across different samples. Aims: This study had two distinct aims: to test the components of CWM and to examine how the variables of CWM may differ between clinical and non-clinical samples with varying levels of social anxiety. Method: Hypothesized relationships between three groups (i.e. a clinical sample of individuals diagnosed with SAD (ClinS), n = 40; socially anxious students (HSA), n = 40; and, non-anxious students (LSA), n = 40) were investigated. Results: Four out of five CWM variables tested were able to distinguish between highly socially anxious and non-anxious groups after controlling for age and depression. Conclusions: CWM variables are able to distinguish between high and low levels of social anxiety and are uniquely related to social anxiety over depression.

Keywords

Social anxietycognitive behaviour treatmentcognitive therapy
Type
Empirically Grounded Clinical Interventions
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , July 2016 , pp. 385 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2015 

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