Psychopathology of social phobia: Effects of subtype and of avoidant personality disorder

The effects of social phobia subtypes and of comorbid avoidant personality disorder (APD) on the symptoms of 45 outpatients with a primary diagnosis of social phobia were examined. Generalized social phobic subjects with (GSP-APD, n = 16) and without APD (GSP-NAPD, n = 13) reported greater social an...

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Published inJournal of anxiety disorders Vol. 9; no. 6; pp. 489 - 501
Main Authors Tran, Giao Q., Chambless, Dianne L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Elsevier Ltd 01.11.1995
Elsevier
Subjects
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Medical sciences
Phobia
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Human
Symptomatology
Concomitant disease
Social phobia
Anxiety disorder
Clinical form
Typology
Personality disorder
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ISSN0887-6185
1873-7897
DOI10.1016/0887-6185(95)00027-L

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Summary:The effects of social phobia subtypes and of comorbid avoidant personality disorder (APD) on the symptoms of 45 outpatients with a primary diagnosis of social phobia were examined. Generalized social phobic subjects with (GSP-APD, n = 16) and without APD (GSP-NAPD, n = 13) reported greater social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation than specific social phobic subjects without APD (SSP-NAPD, n = 16). Compared to SSP-NAPD clients, GSP-APD clients tended to exhibit poorer social skills during behavioral testing and were more likely to be unmarried and to use medication. GSP-APD subjects were more depressed than both SSP-NAPD and GSP-NAPD subjects, while non-APD groups did not differ. The results showed that both social phobia subtype and APD comorbidity contributed to the differences found among the three subgroups of social phobic clients.
ISSN:0887-6185
1873-7897
DOI:10.1016/0887-6185(95)00027-L