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Affective and Self-Esteem Instability in the Daily Lives of People With Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder

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Farmer, Antonina S., Kashdan, Todd B.·2014·Clinical Psychological Science

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Research on affect and self-esteem in social anxiety disorder (SAD) has focused on trait or average levels, but we know little about the dynamic patterns of these experiences in the daily lives of people with SAD. We asked 40 adults with SAD and 39 matched healthy controls to provide end-of-day reports on their affect and self-esteem over 2 weeks. Compared to healthy adults, participants with SAD exhibited greater instability of negative affect and self-esteem, though the self-esteem effect was driven by mean-level differences. The SAD group also demonstrated a higher probability of acute changes in negative affect and self-esteem (i.e., from one assessment period to the next), as well as difficulty maintaining positive states and improving negative states (i.e., dysfunctional self-regulation). Our findings provide insights on the phenomenology of SAD, with particular attention to the temporal dependency, magnitude of change, and directional patterns of psychological experiences in everyday life.

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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].”
  • Individuals with social anxiety disorder showed higher overall levels of negative affect and more emotional instability, but this was not the case for positive affect.

    “Individuals with SAD showed not only higher overall levels of NA but also more emotional instability, which was not the case for PA [16].”
  • Farmer and Kashdan found that individuals with social anxiety disorder were 3 times more likely to present acute shifts in negative affect.

    “Farmer and Kashdan [16] found that individuals with SAD were 3 times more likely to present acute shifts in NA”

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Authors
Farmer, A. S., & Kashdan, T. B.
Affiliations
George Mason University (US)
Corresponding author
Kashdan, Todd B.
Venue
Clinical Psychological Science
Published
2013-07-23
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
187-201
ISSN
  • 2167-7026 (ISSN-L)
  • 2167-7034
OpenAlex
W2091099740
Cited by
81
References
89
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Clinical Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R21MH073937)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (F31DA029390)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
generalized social anxiety disorder, self-esteem instability, negative affect, everyday life, within-person variability, self-regulation, phenomenology of anxiety

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