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Cognitive Risk Factors and the Experience of Acute Anxiety Following Social Stressors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

Saulnier, Kevin G.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1623236731821405

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Clinical Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with diffuse impairment and constitutes a substantial public health burden. To better understand how social anxiety develops, it is crucial to identify how risk factors contribute to social anxiety. Anxiety sensitivity social concerns (ASSC), defined as the fear of publicly observable anxiety symptoms, and fear of negative evaluation (FNE), defined as distress arising from concerns about negative judgment, are risk factors that may amplify anxiety following social stressors. However, it is unclear how ASSC and FNE influence acute anxiety following stressors in naturalistic settings. In the current study, the impact of ASSC and FNE on anxious arousal (panic symptoms) and anxious apprehension (worry symptoms) following stressors was examined in a sample of community adults (N = 83; M age = 29.66 years, SD = 12.49, 59.0% female) who completed questionnaires five times per day over a two-week period. Dynamic structural equation modeling was used to examine predictors of overall levels of anxiety as well as anxiety following social and nonsocial stressors. ASSC interacted with the presence of social stressors, such that ASSC positively predicted anxious arousal following social stressors. FNE interacted with the presence of nonsocial stressors to predict anxious arousal and anxious apprehension, such that FNE positively predicted anxiety following nonsocial stressors. These findings suggest ASSC may specifically amplify anxious arousal following social stressors, whereas FNE may broadly amplify anxiety following nonsocial stressors.
Nicholas Allan, Ph.D. (Advisor)
118 p.
Clinical Psychology
Social anxiety; Anxiety sensitivity; Fear of negative evaluation; Ecological momentary assessment; Dynamic structural equation modeling

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  • Saulnier, K. G. (2022). Cognitive Risk Factors and the Experience of Acute Anxiety Following Social Stressors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1623236731821405

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Saulnier, Kevin. Cognitive Risk Factors and the Experience of Acute Anxiety Following Social Stressors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. 2022. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1623236731821405.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Saulnier, Kevin. "Cognitive Risk Factors and the Experience of Acute Anxiety Following Social Stressors: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1623236731821405

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