Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness
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Participants
Participants were 253 (40 male) students, all Greek Cypriot Caucasian from two universities in the Republic of Cyprus who took part in exchange for extra credit. The gender distribution of the study reflects the population of the two universities. Mean age was 21.22, SD = 3.99. These were all full-time students (i.e. not employed full-time outside of college), mainly unmarried (single or in a romantic relationship, but not married or engaged; 94.10%). Seventy-three percent lived in the city,
Participants
Participants were 324 Caucasian Greek-Cypriot adults, (189 female, Mage = 44.87, SD = 11.79), recruited as part of an epidemiological study. Most were working full time (68.8%), were married and/or engaged (58% married, 20.1% engaged, 10.8% single, 3.7% divorced, and the rest were either in a relationship or widowed) and lived with their own family (79.9%). Regarding education, 46.3% were college graduates (including graduate degrees), 11.4% completed some college, 23.1% high-school graduates,
Acknowledgment
The authors wish to thank Dora Georgiou, Margarita Kapsou, and several undergraduate research assistants for their help with data collection. This research was partially funded by grants ΥΓΕΙΑ/0506/18 and ΝΕΑΥΠΟΔΟΜΗ/ΣΤΡΑΤΗ/0309/37 both granted by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, the Republic of Cyprus and EU Structural Funds. The funding agencies had no role in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report or in the decision to
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