Social anxiety and cognition : the self-perceptions of socially anxious children on tasks of cognitive abilities

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Social anxiety and cognition : the self-perceptions of socially anxious children on tasks of cognitive abilities

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Beck, and other researchers have postulated that anxious individuals have cognitions that overemphasize negative information, thereby maintaining and/or increasing anxious mood. Self-perceptions of cognitive abilities were examined in fifty-one primary school children in Standards 3 and 4. On the basis of scores on the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI), 55% of the participants were classified as socially anxious and 45% were classified as non-socially anxious. After completing two co...

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

1994

Creator

Banks, Rebecca L.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/102753

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Anxiety in children / Cognition--Testing

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