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- Title
- Biased self-perception of social skills in anxious children : the role of state anxiety
- Related
- Journal of experimental psychopathology, Vol. 2, Issue 4, (2011), p.571-585
- DOI
- 10.5127/jep.019211
- Publisher
- Textrum
- Date
- 2011
- Author/Creator
- Dodd, Helen F
- Author/Creator
- Hudson, Jennifer L
- Author/Creator
- Lyneham, Heidi J
- Author/Creator
- Wuthrich, Viviana M
- Author/Creator
- Morris, Talia
- Author/Creator
- Monier, Laurie
- Description
- The role of state and trait anxiety on observer ratings of social skill and negatively biased self-perception of social skill was examined. Participants were aged between 7 and 13 years (mean=9.65; sd=1.77; N=102), 47 had a current anxiety diagnosis and 55 were non-anxious controls. Participants were randomly allocated to a high or low anxiety condition and asked to complete social tasks. Task instructions were adjusted across conditions to manipulate participants’ state anxiety. Observers rated anxious participants as having poorer social skills than non-anxious controls but there was no evidence that anxious participants exhibited a negative self-perception bias, relative to controls. However, as participants’ ratings of state anxiety increased, their perception of their performance became more negatively biased. The results suggest that anxious children may exhibit real impairments in social skill and that high levels of state anxiety can lead to biased judgements of social skills in anxious and non-anxious children.
- Description
- 15 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 170100 Psychology
- Subject Keyword
- social skills
- Subject Keyword
- state anxiety
- Subject Keyword
- social phobia
- Subject Keyword
- children
- Subject Keyword
- anxiety
- Subject Keyword
- cognitive bias
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/162915
- Identifier
- mq:18462
- Identifier
- ISSN:2043-8087
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2011005246
- Identifier
- mq_res-20120312-113736
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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