Previous work on socially anxious individuals has shown

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Evidence profile

Stated in the abstract section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2013 and 2021, spanning 4 journals. Those papers have been cited 270 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Maternal anxiety versus depressive disorders: specific relations to infants' crying, feeding and sleeping problems (2015) · Child Care Health and Development · cited 121× · doi

  BACKGROUND: Maternal depression has been associated with excessive infant crying, feeding and sleeping problems, but the specificity of maternal depression, as compared with maternal anxiety remains unclear and manifest disorders prior to pregnancy have been widely neglected.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: maternal depression background associated excessive infant crying feeding sleeping problems specificity compared anxiety remains unclear
• Distinguishing healthy adults from people with social anxiety disorder: Evidence for the value of experiential avoidance and positive emotions in everyday social interactions. (2013) · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · cited 131× · doi

  Despite the increased attention that researchers have paid to social anxiety disorder (SAD), compared with other anxiety and mood disorders, relatively little is known about the emotional and social factors that distinguish individuals who meet diagnostic criteria from those who do not.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: social anxiety despite increased attention researchers paid disorder compared mood disorders relatively little known emotional
• Symptoms of social anxiety, depression, and stress in parents of children with social anxiety disorder (2018) · British Journal of Clinical Psychology · cited 12× · doi

  OBJECTIVES: It has been suggested that elevated maternal social anxiety may play a disorder-specific role in maintaining childhood social anxiety disorder (SAD), but few studies have examined whether mothers of children with SAD are more socially anxious than mothers of children with other anxiety disorders (ANX).

  generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: anxiety social disorder mothers children objectives elevated maternal play specific role maintaining childhood examined whether
• Factors impacting the experience of empathic distress in social anxiety: a path analysis approach (2021) · The Journal of Social Psychology · cited 6× · doi

  Previous work on socially anxious individuals has shown mixed results, consistent with a model of social anxiety symptomatology characterized by increased personal distress in empathy eliciting situations, which is driven by emotional dysregulation.

  generalstated in abstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: previous socially anxious individuals mixed consistent model social anxiety symptomatology characterized increased personal distress empathy

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