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Social anxiety and emotion knowledge: a meta-analysis.

M S O'Toole¹, E Hougaard, D S Mennin

¹Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. mia@psy.au.dk

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|December 19, 2012

Summary

Social anxiety is linked to poorer emotion knowledge (EK). This meta-analysis found that individuals with social anxiety, especially clinical levels, struggle more with understanding their own emotions and complex interpersonal emotions.

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Social Psychology

Background:

Social anxiety is hypothesized to correlate with deficits in emotion knowledge (EK).
Previous research on this association has yielded inconsistent findings.
A systematic review and meta-analysis is needed to clarify the relationship between social anxiety and EK.

Purpose of the Study:

To systematically investigate the association between emotion knowledge (EK) and social anxiety.
To differentiate the association for non-clinical and clinical levels of social anxiety.
To explore the impact on intrapersonal and interpersonal EK.

Main Methods:

Systematic literature searches of electronic databases.
Meta-analysis of data from 43 included studies.
Subgroup analyses to examine interpersonal EK for basic versus complex emotions.

Main Results:

A significant negative association was found between social anxiety and EK.
The strongest negative association was observed between clinical social anxiety and intrapersonal EK (understanding own emotions).
Social anxiety was more strongly linked to difficulties understanding complex interpersonal emotions than basic emotions.

Conclusions:

Poor emotion knowledge (EK) may play a significant role in social anxiety disorder (SAD).
Targeting EK in therapeutic interventions for SAD may be beneficial.
Heterogeneity across studies suggests caution in drawing definitive conclusions.