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Discomfort with Friendly Giving in Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder
- Source :
- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment. 42:582-591
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Prior research focusing on social anxiety and impairment in friendships has explored the role of specific behaviors within friendships, such as receiving favors from a friend, in its relation to social anxiety symptoms and friendship quality. In a prior study, we examined three types of reactions to favors (negative reactions to favors, positive reactions to favors, and expectation of tit-for-tat behavior) and explored how these reactions relate to social anxiety, which resulted in the creation of the Favor Scale, a measure of an individual’s response to friendly giving. In the current study, we explore the psychometric properties of the Favor Scale in a sample of individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD) and a sample of healthy controls (NOSAD). Results largely replicated the three-factor structure of the Favor Scale (with the removal of a single item in the GSAD group) and findings suggested both tit-for-tat behavior and negative reactions to favors are elevated in GSAD individuals compared to NOSAD individuals.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733505 and 08822689
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e2bf50cd7bb9a7ccf92ff0f9c51e3bab