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Saturday, January 11th, 2014
Several models of social phobia have argued that the central problem in social phobia is the belief by individuals that they cannot measure up to the audiences’ expectations of them. As a result, individuals believe that audiences will evaluate them negatively, despite the fact that people with social phobia do not hold unrealistic expectations for […]
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Friday, January 10th, 2014
Parental factors have been suggested as potentially important in producing social anxiety. In an early study, Parker found that social phobics perceived their parents as overprotective and low in emotional support compared to a nonanxious control group. Several studies have now replicated these results. Further, in some research, social phobics report that their parents isolated […]
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
genetic factors social phobia As for the other anxiety disorders, family studies showed a higher concordance for social phobia among the f irst-degree relatives of people with the disorder. In contrast, twin studies typically demonstrated that most of the genetic variance is consistent with the importance of a general neurotic syndrome. However, there has also […]
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
By definition, social phobics fear or avoid situations in which scrutiny by others is possible. The more common situations include parties, meeting members of the opposite sex, public speaking, lecture halls, using the telephone, and public transport. In addition, there is a subgroup of social phobics who fear specific activities such as eating, drinking, or […]
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
social phobia Cognitive Symptoms. In terms of broad assessment, social phobics report more negative thoughts and less positive thoughts than nonanxious controls before and during a social interaction. More specifically, Hartman found that the thoughts of social phobics fell into four factor analytically derived categories: general physiological discomfort and social inadequacy, concern with others’ awareness […]
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Sunday, January 5th, 2014
Social anxiety and reports of shyness in general populations are particularly common; they occur in around 40% of college students. In addition, social anxiety is a common accompaniment of all of the anxiety disorders. Based on DSM-III-R criteria, social phobia has a lifetime prevalence of 13.3% in the general adult population and a point prevalence […]
Tags: clinical, epidemiology, social phobia
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Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
There is a long history of research into biological aspects of panic disorder. Most of the evidence in humans has come from biological challenge procedures and pharmacological treatment and manipulation studies. More recently, evidence has accumulated from neuroimaging studies of people with panic attacks. A large number of chemical substances, it has been found, produce […]
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Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Psychological Factors Despite certain specific differences, most psychological models of panic disorder see the central problem as the individuals’ fear of their own physical sensations. In this way, panic disorder is seen as almost a phobic disorder, and the feared (phobic) stimuliare internal (somatic symptoms) rather than external. Basically, these models suggest that somatic symptoms […]
Tags: disorder, panic, psychological
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
panic disorder Environmental Factors A number of uncontrolled trials have suggested that agoraphobic avoidance (and thus probably the first panic attack) is preceded by a major life event in a majority of subjects. Controlled retrospective trials, however, have not been completely consistent. One study found that panic disorder subjects reported a greater number of stressors […]
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
panic disorder Genetic and Familial Factors A series of early studies conducted by a group of researchers in Iowa indicated that panic disorder subjects were more likely to have first-degree relatives with panic disorder (or agoraphobia) than nonanxious controls or subjects with other anxiety disorders. Such data have often been cited as evidence for a […]
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