Self-verification and social anxiety: Preference for negative social feedback and low social self-esteem

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 601-617

  Valentiner, David P ^a   Skowronski, John J ^a   McGrath, Patrick B ^b   Smith, Sarah A ^a   Renner, Kerry A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

interpersonal model; self; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; REINFORCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEAR; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82555168473     PISSN: 13524658     EISSN: 14691833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1352465811000300     Document Type: Article

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