TY - JOUR
T1 - Situational domains of social phobia
AU - Holt, Craig S.
AU - Heimberg, Richard G.
AU - Hope, Debra A.
AU - Liebowitz, Michael R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by grant ROlMH44119 to Richard G. Heimberg and grant ROHvlH40121 to Michael R. Liebowitz from the National Institute of Mental Health. Craig Holt is now at the University of Iowa. Debra Hope is now at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We would like to thank Marylene Cloitre and Stacey Slavkin for extensive comments on an earlier draft, Portions of this paper were presented at the annual meeting of tbe Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, San Francisco, November, 1990.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Although social phobia is defined as severe anxiety in social situations, little is known about the range or prevalence of social situations that elicit anxiety in social phobic individuals. The present study developed the concept of situational domains, groups of similar situations that may provoke anxiety in subsets of social anxious persons. Four conceptually derived situational domains were examined: formal speaking/interaction, informal speaking/interaction, observation by others, and assertion. Ninety-one social phobic patients were classified as anxiety-positive or anxiety-negative within each situational domain, varying inclusion criteria of anxiety experienced in each situation and the number of anxiety-producing situations within a domain. Patients were highly likely to be classified to the formal speaking/interaction domain, regardless of inclusion criteria employed or presence of anxiety within other domains. Support was also found for previous findings that most social phobics experience anxiety in more than one social situation, even under conservative classification criteria. Implications for the current diagnostic nosology and directions for future research are discussed.
AB - Although social phobia is defined as severe anxiety in social situations, little is known about the range or prevalence of social situations that elicit anxiety in social phobic individuals. The present study developed the concept of situational domains, groups of similar situations that may provoke anxiety in subsets of social anxious persons. Four conceptually derived situational domains were examined: formal speaking/interaction, informal speaking/interaction, observation by others, and assertion. Ninety-one social phobic patients were classified as anxiety-positive or anxiety-negative within each situational domain, varying inclusion criteria of anxiety experienced in each situation and the number of anxiety-producing situations within a domain. Patients were highly likely to be classified to the formal speaking/interaction domain, regardless of inclusion criteria employed or presence of anxiety within other domains. Support was also found for previous findings that most social phobics experience anxiety in more than one social situation, even under conservative classification criteria. Implications for the current diagnostic nosology and directions for future research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0887-6185(92)90027-5
DO - 10.1016/0887-6185(92)90027-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0026512529
SN - 0887-6185
VL - 6
SP - 63
EP - 77
JO - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
JF - Journal of Anxiety Disorders
IS - 1
ER -