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Self-focused attention and safety behaviours maintain social anxiety in adolescents: an experimental study
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Background
Self-focused attention and safety behaviours are both associated with adolescent social anxiety. In adults, experimental studies have indicated that the processes are causally implicated in social anxiety, but this hypothesis has not yet been tested in a youth sample.Methods
This experiment explored this possibility by asking high and low socially anxious adolescents (N = 57) to undertake conversations under different conditions. Du... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- e0247703
- Publication date:
- 2021-02-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1161674
- Local pid:
- pubs:1161674
- Deposit date:
- 2021-02-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Leigh, E et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 Leigh et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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