title: The Maintaining Factors of Social Anxiety: A Three-Group Comparison of a Clinical Sample with Highly Socially Anxious Students and Non-Anxious Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Clark and Wells' (1995) cognitive model of social anxiety (CWM) explains the maintenance of social anxiety and has been used as a guide for treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Few studies have examined the components of the model together across different samples.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study had two distinct aims: to test the components of CWM and to examine how the variables of CWM may differ between clinical and non-clinical samples with varying levels of social anxiety.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hypothesized relationships between three groups (i.e. a clinical sample of individuals diagnosed with SAD (ClinS), n = 40; socially anxious students (HSA), n = 40; and, non-anxious students (LSA), n = 40) were investigated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four out of five CWM variables tested were able to distinguish between highly socially anxious and non-anxious groups after controlling for age and depression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  CWM variables are able to distinguish between high and low levels of social anxiety and are uniquely related to social anxiety over depression.
authors.affiliation: The University of Melbourne,Australia.
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Skocic
authors.affiliation: The University of Melbourne,Australia.
authors.forename: Henry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.affiliation: The University of Melbourne,Australia.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hulbert
authors.affiliation: The University of Melbourne,Australia.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Faber
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003071:Cognition; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D000072861:Phobia, Social / Q000523:psychology*; D011581:Psychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Social anxiety; cognitive behaviour treatment; cognitive therapy