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22-02-2018 | Original Article

Positive Emotions and Social Anxiety: The Unique Role of Pride

Auteurs: Lior Cohen, Jonathan D. Huppert

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 4/2018

Abstract

Social anxiety is correlated with diminished global positive affect (PA). However, it is not clear from the data whether this relationship is due to global PA, or to specific emotions such as joy or pride. We hypothesized that pride will account for most of the relationship between social anxiety and PA after controlling for depression. Results of Study 1 (N = 352) supported the hypothesis that when pride and PA were in the same model, only pride was significantly related to social anxiety. The same pattern was found when pride and joy were in the same model. When multiple facets of positive emotions (pride, love, joy, contentment, amusement, awe and compassion) were in the same model, only pride and love were significantly related to social anxiety. Results of Study 2 (N = 288) replicated the findings that only pride was significantly related to social anxiety, but counter to our hypothesis, revealed that pride experience was significantly related to social anxiety more than reported expressions of pride. Study 3 extended these findings to a clinical, treatment seeking sample of 23 patients diagnosed with generalized social anxiety disorder and 35 low-anxious controls. When predicting group (patients vs. non-patient) by pride and PA, only pride was a significant predictor. Pride continued to be a predictor when controlling for either fear of positive or negative evaluation. Thus, all three studies demonstrated the importance of the specific experience of pride in its relationship to social anxiety.

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Given that one explanation of the relationship between lower positive affect and social anxiety is due to negative response bias, the overlap with negative affect, or depression itself, all regression analyses conducted included depression as the first step in the regression in order to control for these factors.

Given the unequal proportion of males and females in Study 1 and Study 2, we entered gender as a covariate in all analyses along with depression. When doing so, gender was not a significant predictor and all findings remained essentially the same.

When conducting multiple regression with all of the facets of the DPES predicting depression, it was found that contentment was the strongest significant predictor (sr² = 0.11) followed by pride (sr² = 0.02), joy (sr² = 0.01), and compassion (sr² = 0.01).

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Titel: Positive Emotions and Social Anxiety: The Unique Role of Pride
Auteurs: Lior Cohen
Jonathan D. Huppert
Publicatiedatum: 22-02-2018
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-018-9900-2

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