This study compared focus attention (self-focused attention and other focused attention) in social phobia patients and normal subjects. In this study with causal–comparative method, 100 subjects with social phobia and 100 normal individuals have been compared. Subjects were selected through cluster sampling among Tabriz university students. Data scale of social phobia and focus attention of the...

Social phobia is one of the most common disorders between adolescents and young adults .The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of social phobia in Abhar`s high school students, at the risk-period for developing social phobia, and its influencing factors . In this cross-sectional study, a total of 5526 high school students of both genders from Abhar were selected using a census s...

Sixty-seven individuals with social phobia (social anxiety disorder) and 60 healthy controls rated their perceived standing relative to others on 13 self-attribute dimensions, their level of certainty concerning those standings, and the importance of each dimension. As expected, individuals with social phobia provided self-ratings that were significantly more negative than controls across all d...

BACKGROUND Social phobia has been characterized as a disorder of exaggerated fear of social threat and heightened sensitivity to imagery of social failure. METHODS To assess the physiological basis of this description, social phobia patients (n=75) and demographically matched control participants (n=75) imagined neutral and fearful events while acoustic startle probes were occasionally presen...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of screening measures to detect social phobia among youth in a primary care setting. METHODS Families recruited from a pediatric primary care setting completed by mail the Social Anxiety Scale (SAS), the Social Worries Questionnaire (SWQ), and the social phobia subscale of the Screen for Child Related Anxiety Disorders (SCARED). Diagnoses were obtained fro...

Context: The use of safety behaviours stresses the cognitive failure and tends to distort the evaluation of interpersonal experiences. Objective: To assess the reliability of the self-administered Social Phobia Safety Behaviors Scale (ECSAS in the Portuguese acronym) in order to determine the association of social anxiety disorder (SAD) with processes related to safety behaviors. Method: A tota...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the role of negative and positive affectivity, selffocused attention, and attentional control in social anxiety symptoms.  Methods: A sample of 382 students of Isfahan University was selected and the participants completed Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Attentional Control Scale (ACS), and Focus...