Social anxiety disorder in children: Investigating the relative contribution of automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking and metacognitions
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Social anxiety disorder in children : Investigating the relative contribution of automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking and metacognitions. / Esbjorn, Barbara Hoff; Falch, Anette; Walczak, Monika Anna; Normann, Nicoline; Breinholst, Sonja.
I: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Bind 49, Nr. 2, 2021, s. 159-171.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Social anxiety disorder in children
T2 - Investigating the relative contribution of automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking and metacognitions
AU - Esbjorn, Barbara Hoff
AU - Falch, Anette
AU - Walczak, Monika Anna
AU - Normann, Nicoline
AU - Breinholst, Sonja
N1 - Publisher Copyright: ©
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Background: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is common in youths. However, our understanding of SAD in children is inferior to that of SAD in adolescents or adults, and it is unclear if known adult SAD maintenance mechanisms may also operate in children with SAD. Aim: The paper sets out to investigate the specificity of positive automatic thoughts, social threat negative automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking, positive and negative metacognitions in predicting SAD symptoms and diagnoses in clinically anxious children. Method: We enrolled 122 clinically anxious children aged 7-13 years; of these, 33 had an SAD diagnosis. Results: SAD symptoms correlated positively with social threat negative automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking, and negative metacognitions, and negatively with positive automatic thoughts. Linear regression indicated that, of these variables, only social threat negative automatic thoughts predicted social anxiety symptoms. Logistic regression indicated that social threat negative automatic thoughts, a higher number of diagnoses and negative metacognitive beliefs specifically predicted the presence of SAD diagnosis. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that content-specific social threat negative automatic thoughts was the only variable that specifically distinguished both higher levels of social anxiety symptoms and diagnoses.
AB - Background: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is common in youths. However, our understanding of SAD in children is inferior to that of SAD in adolescents or adults, and it is unclear if known adult SAD maintenance mechanisms may also operate in children with SAD. Aim: The paper sets out to investigate the specificity of positive automatic thoughts, social threat negative automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking, positive and negative metacognitions in predicting SAD symptoms and diagnoses in clinically anxious children. Method: We enrolled 122 clinically anxious children aged 7-13 years; of these, 33 had an SAD diagnosis. Results: SAD symptoms correlated positively with social threat negative automatic thoughts, repetitive negative thinking, and negative metacognitions, and negatively with positive automatic thoughts. Linear regression indicated that, of these variables, only social threat negative automatic thoughts predicted social anxiety symptoms. Logistic regression indicated that social threat negative automatic thoughts, a higher number of diagnoses and negative metacognitive beliefs specifically predicted the presence of SAD diagnosis. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that content-specific social threat negative automatic thoughts was the only variable that specifically distinguished both higher levels of social anxiety symptoms and diagnoses.
KW - automatic thoughts
KW - child
KW - metacognition
KW - repetitive negative thinking
KW - social anxiety disorder
U2 - 10.1017/S1352465820000430
DO - 10.1017/S1352465820000430
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32720630
AN - SCOPUS:85093862814
VL - 49
SP - 159
EP - 171
JO - Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
JF - Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
SN - 1352-4658
IS - 2
ER -
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