social anxiety
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandanxiety
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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anxiety
noun
uk/æŋˈzaɪ.ə.ti/us/æŋˈzaɪ.ə.t̬i/
an uncomfortable feeling of nervousness or worry about something that is happening or might happen in ...
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(Definition ofsocialandanxietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Furthermore, difficulties with establishing personal contacts, caused, for instance, bysocialanxiety, add to loneliness.
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Among patients withsocialanxietydisorder, all correlations with measures ofsocialanxietywere significantly stronger than correlations with measures of depression.
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In general, respondents endorsed moresocialanxietyat the first administration irrespective of whether the format was self-report or clinician-administered.
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In order to avoid such sources of bias, we included only males and closely matched for agesocialanxietydisorder patients and control subjects.
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Also, differences in reported levels ofsocialanxietyoccurred when the interval between administrations exceeded 60 days.
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Thankfully, the patient's level ofsocialanxietywas an important source of influence.
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Indeed, peer exclusion predicted significantly steeper growth in depressive symptoms across this time frame for boys who were high insocialanxiety.
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First, for bothsocialanxietydisorder patients and non-anxious controls, the psychometric characteristics of the two scales were virtually identical.
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What is new, however, is the impact ofsocialanxietyon both emotional and social loneliness.
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Impact of generalizedsocialanxietydisorder in managed care.
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Similarly, it could also be the case that eithersocialanxietyor disorganization reflect the core genetic liability to schizotypy, rather than both together.
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Parental factors associated withsocialanxiety: methodological limitations and suggestions for integrated behavioral research.
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Assume that reliable measures of anhedonia andsocialanxietyare obtained and that, for illustrative purposes, the groups are roughly equal in size.
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If they also sense that the processes of appraising and processing stimuli play an essential role in interpersonal interactions, they may feel somesocialanxiety.
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This lack of difference was seen for bothsocialanxietydisorder patients and non-anxious control participants.
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Unless otherwise stated, each subsequent section presents results for individuals withsocialanxietydisorder first, followed by results for controls.
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Correlations with both self-report and clinicianrated measures of depression were significantly lower than correlations with self-report measures ofsocialanxiety.
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Measures ofsocialanxietysymptoms were thus entered first into the regression equation, followed by simultaneous entry of measures of impairment and depressive symptoms.
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