ArticlePsychological medicine2020
Social context and the real-world consequences of social anxiety.
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- Digital Mental Health Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Studies of Social Anxiety Using Ambulatory Assessment: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Social anxiety and behavioral assessments of social cognition: A systematic review.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Pooled it
- A quasi-randomised pilot study on the efficacy and perceived usefulness of adding chemosignals to mindfulness practice for women with social anxiety.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Prescriptive Predictors of Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention for Social Anxiety Disorder: Machine Learning Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trial Data.JMIR mental health · 2025Trial
- How Indebtedness Affects Social Anxiety Among Chinese University Students: The Moderating Role of Renqing in the Mediation of Psychological Inflexibility.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- Structural Brain Correlates of Childhood Inhibited Temperament: An ENIGMA-Anxiety Mega-Analysis.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Article
- Illness Perceptions in Psychiatric Disorders: Assessing Differences and Associations With Symptom Severity.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Interpretable analysis of social anxiety status and influencing factors among college students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The role of amygdala reactivity in affective fluctuations across social contexts.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Affective dynamics and emotional reactivity in social anxiety disorder.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- A Shared Threat-Anticipation Circuit Is Dynamically Engaged at Different Moments by Certain and Uncertain Threat.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Driven by rewards or punishments? Understanding real world social functioning in anxiety and depressive disorders.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- A shared threat-anticipation circuit is dynamically engaged at different moments by certain and uncertain threat.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Anxiety and perceived social support as moderators of cognitive and emotional well-being in populations affected by COVID-19.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Mentalized Affectivity, Helicopter Parenting, and Psychopathological Risk in Emerging Adults: A Network Analysis.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
- Neuroticism Is Prospectively Associated With 30-Month Changes in Broadband Internalizing Symptoms, but Not Narrowband Positive Affect or Anxious Arousal, in Emerging Adulthood.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Neuroticism/Negative Emotionality Is Associated with Increased Reactivity to Uncertain Threat in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis, Not the Amygdala.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Unguided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Subthreshold Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults: Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2024Article
- Neuroticism/negative emotionality is associated with increased reactivity to uncertain threat in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, not the amygdala.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial anxiety lies on a continuum, and young adults with elevated symptoms are at risk for developing a range of psychiatric disorders. Yet relatively little is known about the factors that govern the hour-by-hour experience and expression of social anxiety in the real world.
methodsHere we used smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to intensively sample emotional experience across different social contexts in the daily lives of 228 young adults selectively recruited to represent a broad spectrum of social anxiety symptoms.
resultsLeveraging data from over 11 000 real-world assessments, our results highlight the central role of close friends, family members, and romantic partners. The presence of such close companions was associated with enhanced mood, yet socially anxious individuals had fewer confidants and spent less time with the close companions that they do have. Although higher levels of social anxiety were associated with a general worsening of mood, socially anxious individuals appear to derive larger benefits - lower levels of negative affect, anxiety, and depression - from their close companions. In contrast, variation in social anxiety was unrelated to the amount of time spent with strangers, co-workers, and acquaintances; and we uncovered no evidence of emotional hypersensitivity to these less-familiar individuals.
conclusionsThese findings provide a framework for understanding the deleterious consequences of social anxiety in emerging adulthood and set the stage for developing improved intervention strategies.
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