Sentences with phrase «of social avoidance»

It showed weak or non-significant correlation with measures of social avoidance, fearfulness, and shyness, thus indicating discriminant validity.

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This avoidance is important to Black Americans and to other oppressed ethnic minority social groups, because the background of social pluralism in America has been the prevailing notion that «the melting pot» and «Anglo - Saxon conformity» constitute the two accepted models of assimilation and acculturation.

The social avoidance and anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities) characteristic of depression move energy resources to ghting infection, and the hypervigilance characteristic of anxiety disorders is linked to protection from attack and subsequent pathogen exposure.

Its attitudes are found in every branch of Christendom: the quest for negative status, the elevation of minor issues to a place of major importance, the use of social mores as a norm of virtue, the toleration of one's own prejudice but not the prejudice of others, the confusion of the church with a denomination, and the avoidance of prophetic scrutiny by using the Word of God as an instrument of self - security but not self - criticism.

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The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, referred to by clinicians as the DSM - IV, (APA, 1994) recognized that the social anxiety and avoidance characteristic of social phobia may be associated with SM, and thus, both diagnoses may be given.

«They have failed to spell out details of how they would achieve much of their tightening, relying heavily on unspecified measures to reduce tax avoidance and evasion (# 7 billion) as well as some unspecified social security cuts (# 2 billion).

Angrily dismissing reports making rounds on social media platforms that then President Mahama's brother, Ibrahim Mahama was footing his medical bills, Nana Akufo Addo, then, flagbearer of the NPP, in a statement said ``... for the avoidance of doubt, we want to state that Ibrahim Mahama does not pay Nana Akufo - Addo's medical bills, let alone pay them on a monthly basis.

May is determined to take us out of the EU at any cost to satisfy her very wealthy supporters, apart from wanting the social chapter destroyed, the wealthy do not want the new EU legislation that requires governments to stop tax avoidance by companies.

Depending on an individual's temperament, role, and workplace stressors, symptoms of anxiety take different forms: procrastination, avoidance, fatigue, irritability, fearfulness, social isolation, obsessiveness, perfectionism, or a feeling of constantly being overwhelmed — all of which result in diminished efficiency.

In September, Hagerman and colleagues reported that arbaclofen, a drug that stimulates a type of GABA receptor, reduced social avoidance in people with fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that shares many features with autism.

«These levels are known to impact both the human experience in national parks and have a range of repercussions for wildlife... so animals use sounds for many essential life functions, such as predator avoidance, navigation, finding food, mate attraction and maintenance of social groups.

Now, L. Eugene Arnold and Michael Aman, professors emeritus at the Nisonger Center at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, and their colleagues have published a study, available online in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (JCAP), showing the addition of risperidone to parent training and a stimulant also improves teachers» assessments of anxiety and social avoidance.

Most skin cancer prevention campaigns have emphasized avoidance of getting sunburned, reducing UV exposure and applying sunscreen, but they have neglected the individual's experience with social and appearance concerns, he said.

Positive emotionality is a combination of scores for well - being (reward sensitivity), social potency, achievement (motivation), and social closeness; negative emotionality is a combination of scores for stress reaction, alienation, and aggression; and constraint is a combination of scores for self - control, harm avoidance, and traditionalism.

Third, appraisals of social interactions involving approach and avoidance behaviors were more positive in Caucasian than in East Asian participants.

Our findings first confirmed previous work with this model in demonstrating that compared to undefeated control animals, mice most susceptible to social defeat stress demonstrated a number of abnormalities in social avoidance, depression and anxiety as measured by routine test procedures.

But such a label, however well - intentioned, does a disservice to Cholodenko's admirable avoidance of social tract.

Instead of focusing on censoring or avoidance, it's important to focus on all of the positive ways social media can be utilized by teaching good digital citizenship.

The 2014 letter declares that «Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance... decreased academic achievement... increased likelihood of dropping out; substance abuse; and involvement with juvenile justice systems.»

Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance and diminished educational engagement; 9 decreased academic achievement; 10 increased behavior problems; 11 increased likelihood of dropping out; 12 substance abuse; 13 and involvement with juvenile justice systems.14

A new cost - benefit analysis by researchers at Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering shows that the public could derive economic and social benefits today if partially - automated collision avoidance features were deployed in all cars.

The most current research indicates dogs have a very loose social structure based on avoidance of confrontation and maintaining social peace.

If advanced senility occurs, bizarre behaviors are seen, for example, wandering, excessive meowing, disorientation, and avoidance of social interaction.

- Temperament: aggression, guarding of the mouth or head, avoidance of social interaction, hiding, abnormal behavior

For a poorly socialized puppy, the risk of developing behavior problems including aggression toward other animals or humans, anxieties and phobias, and avoidance of social interactions is high.

Behavioural inhibition (BI), which is a human temperament style characterized by avoidance of novel stimuli (social and non-social), withdrawal and restraint, associates with certain types of OCD (checking, doubting, obsessing, neutralizing and hoarding)[62].

No matter if you're an avid shopper or celebrator, the average person increases their financial expenditures in the last months of the year thanks to gift giving, social engagements, holiday travel, and — perhaps for some of us — holiday avoidance.

The new pop - up exhibition entitled Tendrement at the San Diego Art Institute features artists questioning the social norms and our visceral sensations of discomfort and avoidance.

In this regard, the avoidance of feminine containment comes through the inherently - perceived social contradiction within her subject, Dr. Biruté Galdikas, who is presented embodying the emblems of the mother whilst operating within a STEM environment — the social and intellectual structures of which, all too often, diminish the utility of feminine characteristics.

From here, it seems that the avoidance of the topic suggests one of two possible distasteful alternatives: Either — We don't have a clue, but its good politics and a great opportunity to do social engineering.

That permits the avoidance of double recovery through the deduction of state benefits, such as under the Social Security Recovery of Benefits Act 1997 and it also takesinto account any interim payments made under a victims comprehensive policy of insurance.

Standing in the way of the plan's success is a phenomenon that has curtailed the profits of websites: ad blockers and advertising avoidance in general, according to Jennifer M. Grygiel, assistant professor of communications / social media at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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The SS cohort reported significantly better outcomes over one year in employment, social support, general symptoms of psychiatric distress, and symptoms of PTSD, particularly avoidance and arousal clusters.

Poverty, living in homes and / or communities in which violence, drugs, and other negative risk factors are present, abuse, violent or delinquent behavior, low self - efficacy, academic failure, truancy / suspension from school, avoidance of reading or other «academic» endeavors, depression, short attention span, withdrawal, lack of appropriate social skills, anger, substance use, aggression, sexual activity / teen pregnancy, and grief

There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups with regard to DASS score (Anxiety subscale), HLPCQ (Total score, and subscales Dietary avoidance, Social support, Nutrition) and the Existential Subscale of SWB (p > 0.05).

An Analysis of Influences of Chemyon (Social - Face) Sensitivity, Social Anxiety and Self - esteem on Uncertainty Avoidance Tendency

PTSD is a severe psychiatric illness characterised by four core symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need for novel treatments.

The SASC - R includes the following three subscales: fear of negative evaluation from peers, social avoidance and distress specific to new situations or unfamiliar peers, and social avoidance and distress experienced more generally in the company of peers.

Attachment avoidance and feelings of connection in social interaction.

These were then compared to the more specific styles of problem focused and seeks social support variables (positive coping) and blame self, wishful thinking, and avoidance variables (negative coping), as well as the combined group scores of these variables.

At time 0, the children's degree of shyness - BI was evaluated by a questionnaire that was filled in by appropriately trained teachers, and by direct observation of the number of spontaneous comments made in the presence of an unfamiliar adult, based on previous descriptions of children with BI.12, 14 The questionnaire included a set of items seeking to identify temperamental disposition to BI and symptoms of possible social anxiety disorder proper, and included the Italian translations of the Stevenson - Hinde and Glover Shyness to the Unfamiliar, 35 Cloninger and coworkers» Harm Avoidance Scale, 36 and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale37 adapted for chisocial anxiety disorder proper, and included the Italian translations of the Stevenson - Hinde and Glover Shyness to the Unfamiliar, 35 Cloninger and coworkers» Harm Avoidance Scale, 36 and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale37 adapted for chiSocial Anxiety Scale37 adapted for children.

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A temperamental disposition toward the avoidance of novel and uncertain situations together with a set of behaviors that indicate shyness and discomfort in social interactions are comprehensively named childhood shyness, or behavioral inhibition (BI).14 Children with high indexes of shyness - BI are at a heightened risk of developing anxiety disorders, in particular social phobia, 15 and subjects who fall within the BI — social phobia developmental continuum show specific patterns of neurophysiologic responses to pictures of facial expressions.

Regarding the motivation of using SMS, it was found that there is a significant positive relationship between the factor of avoidance of anxiety in face to face relationships and perceived social support from friends.

Avoidance of the attachment figure and social - emotional adjustment in day - care infants.

The categories of attachment styles are now described through a two - dimensional model (Brennan et al., 1998), according to which attachment security corresponds to low avoidance and anxiety scores, reliable social interactions with attachment figures, and positive views of the self and others.

Drawing from previous research, our findings could be interpreted to suggest that continued disapproval, rejection or hostility from parental figures might operate in at least two ways: First, it might foster an externalization of blame and projection of anger and hostility onto others (angry - dismissive pathway), which could potentially contribute to anomalies in the interpretation of others» intentions, exacerbate attributional biases, and increase social avoidance.

For example, it has been observed that both attachment avoidance and anxiety orient attention away from negative social signals (Dewitte et al., 2007; Dewitte and De Houwer, 2008), whereas other reports indicate early vigilance in the perception of positive and negative facial expressions for both anxious and avoidant attached individuals (Niedenthal et al., 2002).