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Expanding the Topography of Social Anxiety: An Experience-Sampling Assessment of Positive Emotions, Positive Events, and Emotion Suppression

Kashdan, Todd B., Steger, Michael F.·2006·Psychological Science

Abstract

The relation between social anxiety and hedonic activity remains poorly understood. From a self-regulatory perspective, we hypothesized that socially anxious individuals experience diminished positive experiences and events on days when they are unable to manage socially anxious feelings adequately. In this 21-day experience-sampling study, we constructed daily measures of social anxiety and emotion regulation. Greater dispositional social anxiety was associated with less positive affect and fewer positive events in everyday life. Among individuals defined as socially anxious from their scores on a global self-report measure of social anxiety, the number of positive events was lowest on days when they both were more socially anxious and tended to suppress emotions and highest on days when they were less socially anxious and more accepting of emotional experiences. Irrespective of dispositional social anxiety, participants reported the most intense positive emotions on the days when they were both least socially anxious and most accepting of emotional experiences. Possible clinical implications are discussed.

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  • The lack of significance for positive affect contradicted many other ambulatory assessment studies that yielded significant between-person associations between lower levels of positive affect and higher levels of negative affect with social anxiety.

    “This lack of significance contradicted many other AA studies that yielded significant between-person associations between lower levels of PA and higher levels of NA with SA [16,20,30,54,57,58,61,69,70].”
  • On days in which social anxiety symptoms increased, the use of suppression tended also to increase.

    “on days in which SA symptoms increased, the use of suppression tended also to increase [61,69].”

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Authors
Kashdan, T. B., & Steger, M. F.
Affiliations
  • George Mason University (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
Corresponding author
Kashdan, Todd B.
Venue
Psychological Science
Published
2006-02
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
120-128
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
OpenAlex
W2160153559
Cited by
458
References
49
Citations by year
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FWCI
18.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
social anxiety, positive affect, positive events, emotion regulation, emotional suppression, emotional acceptance, self-regulation, everyday experience
MeSH terms
Adult, Affect, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Phobic Disorders, Surveys and Questionnaires, Repression, Psychology, Sampling Studies

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