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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
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1371/journal.pone.0247703

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Sub department:
Experimental Psychology
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2756-3770
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Experimental Psychology
Role:
Author
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
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EISSN:
1932-6203
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1161674
Local pid:
pubs:1161674
Deposit date:
2021-02-16

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