Trial reportBehaviour research and therapy2016
The desire to belong: Social identification as a predictor of treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder.
Trial report in Behaviour research and therapy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Helpful and hindering factors in group-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Different facets of religiosity and their longitudinal associations with psychotic-like experiences in the general population.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Social Presence on Purchase Intentions of Knowledge Products Among Knowledge-Based Short Video Users: A Moderated Mediation Model.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The importance of group factors in the delivery of group-based parenting programmes: a process evaluation of Mellow Babies.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Potential processes of change in MDMA-Assisted therapy for social anxiety disorder: Enhanced memory reconsolidation, self-transcendence, and therapeutic relationships.Human psychopharmacology · 2022Review
- The relation between social identity and test anxiety in university students.Health psychology openArticle
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Abstract
objectivePerception of personal identity cannot be separated from the perception of the social context and one's social identity. Full involvement in group psychotherapy may require not only the awareness of personal impairment, but also social identification. The aim of the current study was to examine the association between social identification and symptom improvement in group-based psychotherapy.
method169 participants received 12 sessions of group-based cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder. Social identification, the extent to which a person identifies with those who suffer from the same psychological problem as themselves and/or with those lacking psychopathology (non-sufferers), and clinical outcome were assessed at baseline, mid-and posttreatment, and 1, 3, and 6-months follow-up.
resultsAt baseline, patients aspired for closeness with non-sufferers, and viewed themselves as distant from fellow sufferers and non-sufferers. After treatment, participants viewed not only themselves, but also other individuals with social anxiety, as closer to both non-sufferers and fellow sufferers. These ratings were related to clinical outcomes.
conclusionsThe increase in closeness to both sufferers and non-sufferers across treatment may reflect a movement towards a more tolerant, less dichotomous and rigid, separation of ill and healthy that occurs with successful social anxiety treatment.
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