Resumo: Os universitários são expostos a uma diversidade de situações sociais que repetidas vezes são enfrentadas com dificuldade e tentativas de esquiva, o que constitui fator de risco para a fobia social. Fobia social tem sido considerada um grave problema de saúde mental em função das incapacidades no desempenho em situações socias. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo avaliar os efeitos de um procedimento de intervenção comportamental que inclui treino de habilidades sociais para universitários com fobia social. Foi utilizado um delineamento de linha de base múltipla com quatro universitários, sendo dois homens e duas mulheres, na faixa etária entre 19 e 31 anos, com diagnóstico de fobia social, sem comerbidades, obtido a partir da Entrevista Clínica Estruturada para o DSM-IV (SCID-I). Três universitários passaram pelo processo de intervenção e um respondeu apenas aos instrumentos, em diferentes momentos da pesquisa. As habilidades sociais e o diagnóstico do transtorno dos participantes foram avaliados antes da intervenção, após, e em seguimento, quatro meses depois, com a aplicação da SCID-I, do Mini-Inventário de Fobia Social (Mini-SPIN), do Questionário de Avaliação de Comportamento e Contextos de Vida para Estudantes Universitários (Q-ACC-VU) e do Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS), instrumentos que avaliaram as medidas de produto. As medidas de processo, avaliadas a cada sessão, foram obtidas com a aplicação de uma lista de Verificação de comportamentos (checklist), Questões de Avaliação do Desempenho e Tarefas de Casa. O delineamento adotado foi o de linha de base multipla com sujeito único. A intervenção foi realizada no Centro de Psicologia Aplicada de uma universidade pública, contou com 12 encontros semanais com duas horas de duração conduzidos pela própria pesquisadora. Os resultados... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo). / Abstract: The university students are exposed to a diversity of social situations that for frequent times ara confronted with difficulty and attempts of shunning, which constitute factor of risk to the social phobia. Social Phobia has been considered a serious mental health problem as a function of the disabilities in the development in social situations. The present research has as a goal to evaluate the effects of a behavioral intervention procedure which includes practice os social skills to university students with social phobia. An outline of multiple baseline was used with four university students, whose two men and two women, 19 and 31 year-old age group, diagnosed as social phobia, with no diseases, obtained from the Structured Clinical Interview to the DSM-IV (SCID-I). There univesitystudents went through the intervention process and one of them answered only to the instruments, in different moments of the research. The social skills and the diagnosis of the diasease of the participants were evaluated before the intervention, after, and in the sequence, four months later, with teh application of the SCID-I, of the Social Phobia Mini-Inventory (Mini-SPIN), of the Survey of Evaluation of Behaviors and Contexts of Life to University Students (Q-ACC-VU) and of the Inventory of Social Skills (IHS), instruments that evaluated the measurements of product. The measurements of process, evaluated in every section, were obtained with the application of a Behavior Checklist. Questions of Development and Homework Evaluation. The adopted outline was the one of a multiple base line with an only character. The intervention was held at Centro de Psicologia Aplicada in a public university, there were 12 weekly meetings for two hours each guided by the researcher herself. The results showed that the participants... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Orientador: Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva / Coorientador: Ana Cláudia Moreira Almeida Verdu / Banca: Sonia Regina Loureiro / Banca: Sandra Regina Gimeniz-Paschoal / Mestre

Orientador: Alessandra Turini Bolsoni-Silva / Banca: Sonia Regina Loureiro / Banca: Sandra Regina Gimeniz-Paschoal / Resumo: Considerando a influência da fobia social em pessoas com esse diagnóstico e a grande utilização da internet como forma de interagir socialmente, objetiva-se construtir e fazer a validação preliminar de um instrumento de investigação sobre interações virtuais e presenciais. A partir desse instrumento, objetiva-se comparar o uso de interações virtuais entre pessoa com e sem indicativo de fobia social, bem como analisar as correlações entre o repertório de habilidades sociais e o uso da internet para interações sociais. Para isso, uma amostra de 64 universitários, sendo 26 com indicativo de fobia social e 38 sem indicativo responderam aos instrumentos: Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS - Del Prette); Avaliação de Comportamentos e Contextos na Vida Universitária - Q-ACC-VU, mini-SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory) e o Instrumento sobre Interações Virtuais e Presenciais desenvolvido. Os resultados indicam que o instrumento cosntruído apresenta boas qualidades psicométricas, considerando os resultados das validades (preliminares) de construto, discriminante e concorrente. Os resultados também indicam que os participantes com indicativo de fobia social tendem a se comunicar com um número reduzido de pessoas tanto pessoalmente como virtualmente devido às dificuldades que encontram nas interações presenciais e que se mantém nas interações virtuais. Contudo, a internet pode ser uma ferramenta importante para essas pesssoas porque elas demonstram ter mais dificuldade de tratar de alguns temas pessoalmente do que pela Internet, sendo este um ambiente em que há menor exposição pessoal, evitando que se demonstre insegurança, ansiedade e diminuindo a exposição à reação do interlocutor, que são fortes estímulos aversivos para pessoas com indicativo de fobia social. Ao esquivarem-se desses aversivos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Considering the influence of social phobia in patients with this diagnosis and the widespread use of the internet as a form of social interation, this work aims at constructing and validating (preliminary) a tool for personal and virtual interactions survey. With this tool, this study compares the virtual interactions among people with and without social phobia inclination and analyzes social skills repertoire and internet usage correlations for social intercations. It was selected a sample of 64 graduate students, 26 of them had social phobia inclination and 38 had not. They were asked to answer: Social Skills Inventory (IHS - Del Prette). Evaluations of Behaviours and Environments in Graduate Life (Q-ACC-VU); mini SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory) and the Virtual and Personal Interaction Survey developed. The results indicate that this survey tools has good psychometric qualities, considering the (preliminary) results of validity of construct, discriminatory and concurrent. It was found that participants with social phobia inclination tend to communicate, both virtually and personally, with less people than participants who do not have this inclination. It happens due to difficulties encountered in the face-to-face interactions that are maintained in the virtual world. However, internet can be an important tool for people inclined to social phobia because they demonostrated to have more difficulty to deal with some subjects personally than virtually, which is an environment where there is less personal exposure, avoiding the demonstration of insecurity and anxiety and decreasing exposure to the reaction of the interlocutor, that are strong aversive stimuli for people with social phobia. By avoiding these aversive stimuli, individuals are negatively reinforced. On the other hand, the possibility of talking about these subjects on... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-01-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:37:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ferreira_pp_me_bauru.pdf: 492557 bytes, checksum: c72945b63bbded25a8bbef0e16c43d0b (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Considerando a influência da fobia social em pessoas com esse diagnóstico e a grande utilização da internet como forma de interagir socialmente, objetiva-se construtir e fazer a validação preliminar de um instrumento de investigação sobre interações virtuais e presenciais. A partir desse instrumento, objetiva-se comparar o uso de interações virtuais entre pessoa com e sem indicativo de fobia social, bem como analisar as correlações entre o repertório de habilidades sociais e o uso da internet para interações sociais. Para isso, uma amostra de 64 universitários, sendo 26 com indicativo de fobia social e 38 sem indicativo responderam aos instrumentos: Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS - Del Prette); Avaliação de Comportamentos e Contextos na Vida Universitária - Q-ACC-VU, mini-SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory) e o Instrumento sobre Interações Virtuais e Presenciais desenvolvido. Os resultados indicam que o instrumento cosntruído apresenta boas qualidades psicométricas, considerando os resultados das validades (preliminares) de construto, discriminante e concorrente. Os resultados também indicam que os participantes com indicativo de fobia social tendem a se comunicar com um número reduzido de pessoas tanto pessoalmente como virtualmente devido às dificuldades que encontram nas interações presenciais e que se mantém nas interações virtuais. Contudo, a internet pode ser uma ferramenta importante para essas pesssoas porque elas demonstram ter mais dificuldade de tratar de alguns temas pessoalmente do que pela Internet, sendo este um ambiente em que há menor exposição pessoal, evitando que se demonstre insegurança, ansiedade e diminuindo a exposição à reação do interlocutor, que são fortes estímulos aversivos para pessoas com indicativo de fobia social. Ao esquivarem-se desses aversivos... / Considering the influence of social phobia in patients with this diagnosis and the widespread use of the internet as a form of social interation, this work aims at constructing and validating (preliminary) a tool for personal and virtual interactions survey. With this tool, this study compares the virtual interactions among people with and without social phobia inclination and analyzes social skills repertoire and internet usage correlations for social intercations. It was selected a sample of 64 graduate students, 26 of them had social phobia inclination and 38 had not. They were asked to answer: Social Skills Inventory (IHS - Del Prette). Evaluations of Behaviours and Environments in Graduate Life (Q-ACC-VU); mini SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory) and the Virtual and Personal Interaction Survey developed. The results indicate that this survey tools has good psychometric qualities, considering the (preliminary) results of validity of construct, discriminatory and concurrent. It was found that participants with social phobia inclination tend to communicate, both virtually and personally, with less people than participants who do not have this inclination. It happens due to difficulties encountered in the face-to-face interactions that are maintained in the virtual world. However, internet can be an important tool for people inclined to social phobia because they demonostrated to have more difficulty to deal with some subjects personally than virtually, which is an environment where there is less personal exposure, avoiding the demonstration of insecurity and anxiety and decreasing exposure to the reaction of the interlocutor, that are strong aversive stimuli for people with social phobia. By avoiding these aversive stimuli, individuals are negatively reinforced. On the other hand, the possibility of talking about these subjects on... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-01-27Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:35:19Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rocha_jf_me_bauru.pdf: 728958 bytes, checksum: af19223b07943e39abb4b152819659de (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Os universitários são expostos a uma diversidade de situações sociais que repetidas vezes são enfrentadas com dificuldade e tentativas de esquiva, o que constitui fator de risco para a fobia social. Fobia social tem sido considerada um grave problema de saúde mental em função das incapacidades no desempenho em situações socias. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo avaliar os efeitos de um procedimento de intervenção comportamental que inclui treino de habilidades sociais para universitários com fobia social. Foi utilizado um delineamento de linha de base múltipla com quatro universitários, sendo dois homens e duas mulheres, na faixa etária entre 19 e 31 anos, com diagnóstico de fobia social, sem comerbidades, obtido a partir da Entrevista Clínica Estruturada para o DSM-IV (SCID-I). Três universitários passaram pelo processo de intervenção e um respondeu apenas aos instrumentos, em diferentes momentos da pesquisa. As habilidades sociais e o diagnóstico do transtorno dos participantes foram avaliados antes da intervenção, após, e em seguimento, quatro meses depois, com a aplicação da SCID-I, do Mini-Inventário de Fobia Social (Mini-SPIN), do Questionário de Avaliação de Comportamento e Contextos de Vida para Estudantes Universitários (Q-ACC-VU) e do Inventário de Habilidades Sociais (IHS), instrumentos que avaliaram as medidas de produto. As medidas de processo, avaliadas a cada sessão, foram obtidas com a aplicação de uma lista de Verificação de comportamentos (checklist), Questões de Avaliação do Desempenho e Tarefas de Casa. O delineamento adotado foi o de linha de base multipla com sujeito único. A intervenção foi realizada no Centro de Psicologia Aplicada de uma universidade pública, contou com 12 encontros semanais com duas horas de duração conduzidos pela própria pesquisadora. Os resultados... . / The university students are exposed to a diversity of social situations that for frequent times ara confronted with difficulty and attempts of shunning, which constitute factor of risk to the social phobia. Social Phobia has been considered a serious mental health problem as a function of the disabilities in the development in social situations. The present research has as a goal to evaluate the effects of a behavioral intervention procedure which includes practice os social skills to university students with social phobia. An outline of multiple baseline was used with four university students, whose two men and two women, 19 and 31 year-old age group, diagnosed as social phobia, with no diseases, obtained from the Structured Clinical Interview to the DSM-IV (SCID-I). There univesitystudents went through the intervention process and one of them answered only to the instruments, in different moments of the research. The social skills and the diagnosis of the diasease of the participants were evaluated before the intervention, after, and in the sequence, four months later, with teh application of the SCID-I, of the Social Phobia Mini-Inventory (Mini-SPIN), of the Survey of Evaluation of Behaviors and Contexts of Life to University Students (Q-ACC-VU) and of the Inventory of Social Skills (IHS), instruments that evaluated the measurements of product. The measurements of process, evaluated in every section, were obtained with the application of a Behavior Checklist. Questions of Development and Homework Evaluation. The adopted outline was the one of a multiple base line with an only character. The intervention was held at Centro de Psicologia Aplicada in a public university, there were 12 weekly meetings for two hours each guided by the researcher herself. The results showed that the participants... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Magister Psychologiae - MPsych / The propensity to blush is typical of many individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD). SAD is also associated with significant disability or functional impairment. The relationship between SAD, blushing and functional impairment is still not completely understood however. This study has focused on the association between the propensity to blush and reported level of functional impairment due to SAD. Data from thirty-eight (n=38) individuals with SAD, were collected via a larger study conducted at the MRC Anxiety and Stress Disorders Unit. Assessment tools include the Structured Clinical Interview for Axis I disorders – Patient Version (SCID -I/P), Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) and the Blushing Propensity Scale. Demographic and clinical data were gathered and reported on. Spearman rank order correlations were used to determine relationships between variables, including blushing propensity, disability and symptom severity. Results were reported on and then discussed using the social attention theory. Limitations and recommendations were proposed in the final and concluding chapter. This study, as part of a larger study at the MRC Research Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Stellenbosch

This PhD investigated the theoretical and clinical applications of a meta-cognitive model of psychological disorders in social anxiety. The main objective was to identify potential associations between meta-cognitive knowledge (i.e. meta-cognitive beliefs) and social anxiety. These associations could be direct or indirect via information-processing mechanisms, such as anticipatory processing (AP), focus of attention, and post-mortem processing (PM). The current thesis reports six studies (N = 686).Study 1 explored cross-sectionally the potential contribution of meta-cognitive beliefs about general worry to social anxiety. The results showed that positive and uncontrollability beliefs along with AP were individual positive predictors of social anxiety. Furthermore, these beliefs had an indirect effect on social anxiety through anticipatory processing and the post-mortem. These results prompted further exploration of the nature of meta-cognitive beliefs in social anxiety. Study 2 employed semi-structured interviews to elicit meta-cognitive beliefs that could be specific to social anxiety. High and low socially anxious individuals reported beliefs about anticipatory processing, focusing on an observer perspective (OP) self-image, and the post-mortem. The high socially anxious group reported greater engagement in both AP and focusing on the OP, and spending greater time trying to control AP, OP, and the post-mortem. Moreover, the two groups differed in beliefs about these mechanisms, in coping strategies, and in stop signals. The beliefs elicited informed two new questionnaires that were investigated in Study 3. Each questionnaire revealed three subscales of positive and negative beliefs about AP and about the OP self-image, respectively. The subscales showed good reliability and stability. In addition, the new beliefs revealed further associations with social anxiety. Study 4 investigated whether meta-cognitive beliefs could affect attentional bias in social anxiety. High and low socially anxious individuals completed a dot-probe task with emotional, social and physical words matched with neutral words. The results indicated a potential moderation effect of social anxiety and positive meta-cognitive beliefs on attentional bias. Moreover, meta-cognitive beliefs predicted attentional bias in both social anxiety groups. The above results implicated meta-cognitive beliefs in the maintenance of social anxiety. Study 5 explored whether these beliefs could affect state anxiety in high socially anxious individuals that engaged in either AP or a distraction task prior to giving a speech. The results replicated previous findings that AP was associated with more anxiety compared with distraction. Additionally, uncontrollability beliefs were associated with increased state anxiety before the speech, while positive beliefs interfered with distraction and were associated with the maintenance of anxiety after the speech was over. Finally, Study 6 explored whether a meta-cognitive intervention could be effective in the treatment of social anxiety. In a cross-over design, high socially anxious individuals practiced detached mindfulness and thought challenging prior to giving a speech. The results showed that detached mindfulness was associated with greater reductions in negative beliefs, worry, and the OP. In conclusion, the results of a series of studies support the application of the meta-cognitive model to social anxiety.

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This study investigated the relationship between social phobia, peer attachment, and identity development, within three different countries: China, India, and the USA. It was hypothesized that social phobia interferes with peer attachment, and that poor peer attachment interferes with identity development among late adolescents and emerging adults, thus peer attachment mediates the relationship between social phobia and identity. It was further hypothesized that this relationship between variables is moderated by culture such that in collectivistic cultures, where identity is more dependent upon group affiliation and identification, the interference of social phobia (through peer attachment) on identity would be much greater than in individualistic cultures where identity may be based more on unique characteristics. Participants were 422 undergraduate students from three locations: China (n = 180), India (n = 96), and the USA (n = 146). Results varied by country. For the combined sample collectivism, social phobia, and peer attachment each independently predicted identity. Collectivism also negatively predicted social phobia and positively predicted peer attachment. None of the variables served as a mediator or moderator between the other variables. In the USA sample, collectivism predicted identity but was mediated by peer attachment. Social phobia negatively predicted peer attachment and identity, but was not related to collectivism. In the Chinese sample, peer attachment predicted identity, but was mediated by social phobia. Collectivism predicted identity, but was not related to the other two variables. Among the Indian sample none of the variables predicted identity. A number of possible reasons for these complex results are explored.

The use of attention training protocols for the treatment of generalized social anxiety disorder (SAD) is undergoing increased examination. Initial investigations were positive but more recent investigations have been less supportive of the treatment paradigm. One significant limitation of current investigations may be over-reliance on self-report. In this investigation, we expanded on initial investigations by using a multimodal assessment of patient functioning (i.e., including behavioral assessment). Patients with a primary diagnosis of SAD (n = 31) were randomly assigned to eight sessions of attention training (n = 15) or placebo/control (n = 16). Participants were assessed at pre- and post-treatment via self- and clinician-report of social anxiety as well as anxious and behavioral response to two in vivo social interactions. Results revealed no differences between groups at post-treatment for all study outcome variables, suggesting a lack of effect for the attention training condition. The results are concordant with recent investigations finding a lack of support for the use of attention training as an efficacious treatment for patients with SAD.