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  2. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life. [4]: 15 These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny from others ...

  3. Social anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by a significant amount of fear in one or more social situations causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life. [5]: 15 These fears can be triggered by perceived or actual scrutiny from others.

  4. Specific social phobia - Wikipedia

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    An article based on a National Comorbidity Survey reported that 1/3 of people with lifetime social phobia had glossophobia [11] Another survey of a community sample from a Canadian city reported that of people who believed being anxious in one or several social situations 55% feared speaking to a large audience, 25% feared speaking to a small ...

  5. Social anxiety and relationship development - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder usually begins in late childhood and may resemble extreme shyness or avoidance of situations or social interactions. [3] Women are more likely to develop this condition than men, and this gender difference is more pronounced in adolescents and young adults. If left untreated, social anxiety can last for years, even a ...

  6. Social Phobia Inventory - Wikipedia

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    Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) is a questionnaire developed by the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University [1] for screening and measuring severity of social anxiety disorder. This self-reported assessment scale consists of 17 items, which cover the main spectrum of social phobia such as fear, avoidance, and ...

  7. Fear of negative evaluation - Wikipedia

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    Whereas FNE is related to the dread of being evaluated unfavorably when participating in a social situation, social anxiety is defined as a purely emotional reaction to this type of social situation. When patients with social phobia evaluate their relationships, they are extremely fearful of negative evaluation and express high degrees of FNE. [7]

  8. Phobia - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is when the situation is feared out of a worrying about others judging them. Performance only is a subtype of social anxiety disorder [1] Phobias vary in severity among individuals. Some individuals can avoid the subject and experience relatively mild anxiety over that fear.

  9. Taijin kyofusho - Wikipedia

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    Taijin kyofusho is commonly described as a form of social anxiety (social phobia), with the person dreading and avoiding social contact, and as a subtype of shinkeishitsu (anxiety disorder). [5] However, instead of a fear of embarrassing themselves or being harshly judged by others because of their social ineptness, sufferers of taijin kyofusho ...