SynthesisClinical child and family psychology review2020
Mental Imagery in Social Anxiety in Children and Young People: A Systematic Review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Global Prevalence of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children, Adolescents and Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Pooled it
- Mental Imagery of the Self in Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Self-harm-related mental imagery: A content analysis study of imagery reported by young people referred to mental health services.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- The role of mental toughness, sport imagery and anxiety in athletic performance: structural equation modelling analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- 'Flashforward' mental imagery in adolescents: exploring developmental differences and associations with mental health.Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Factors affecting social phobia among Chinese college students in the context of COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Characterising Negative Mental Imagery in Adolescent Social Anxiety.Cognitive therapy and research · 2022Article
- School Functioning and Educational Aspirations in Adolescents With Social Anxiety-The Young-HUNT3 Study, Norway.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Current cognitive models of social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adults indicate that negative self-images play a pivotal role in maintaining the disorder. However, little is known about the role of negative imagery in the maintenance of social anxiety for children and young people. We systematically reviewed studies that have investigated the association between imagery and social anxiety in children and young people. Four databases were searched for 'social anxiety' and related terms (including 'social phobia' and 'performance anxiety') combined with 'imagery', 'representation*', and 'observer perspective'. The nine studies that met the inclusion criteria provided some evidence that children and young people with higher social anxiety report more negative, observer's perspective images, and some evidence to support the cognitive models of SAD's conceptualisation of imagery. Only two studies included samples with pre-adolescent children. The literature is limited by a number of methodological issues, including inconsistencies in, and a lack of good psychometric measures for, imagery in children and young people. More conclusive evidence is needed to develop significant and robust conclusions.
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