Sentences with phrase «social avoidance in»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Searching for clues to complex human social behaviors, the team developed a procedure in which laboratory rats — much like humans — prefer to approach distressed juveniles but avoid distressed adults — responses known as social affective behaviors, according to the article titled «Insular cortex mediates approach and avoidance responses to others in distress.»

«Brain's insular cortex mediates approach and avoidance responses to others in distress: Changes in insular cortex excitability, caused by the hormone oxytocin, inform social affective behaviors.»

«This is the first time that GABA neuron activity — found deep in the brainstem — has been shown to play a key role in the cognitive processes associated with social approach or avoidance behavior in mammals,» said Dr. Berton.

«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.

After residing with this pugnacious roommate for ten days, many mice developed symptoms that resemble depression in humans, including anxiety, social avoidance and difficulty sleeping.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Halamandaris & Power (1999) found that the subscales such as self - controlling, seeking social support, and accepting responsibility were significantly and positively correlated with university adjustment among students, while negative relationship was found in escape - avoidance.

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.

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.

Whereas approach social goals direct individuals toward potential positive outcomes, such as intimacy and growth in their close relationships, avoidance social goals direct individuals away from potential negative outcomes, such as conflict and rejection.

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).

More in detail, vigilance and interpersonal distancing behaviors have been measured to obtain more accurate implicit measures of social approach / avoidance.

As social animals, authentic and secure connection to ourselves and others is profoundly life changing, and when we struggle with either finding or following our own truth or finding and connecting with our own tribe, it can lead to isolation, anxiety, avoidance of many kinds, depression, and a profound sense of lacking vitality and meaning in living.

Our findings should be considered by health policy decision makers, family counselors, psychologists, and social workers to improve marital satisfaction in women by empowering the spouses more frequently to apply «planful problem solving» ways of coping instead of «distancing,» «escape avoidance» or «confrontive coping» in stressful marital situations.

I specialize in supporting challenges related to ADHD, anxiety, depression, social pragmatics, relationship building, school avoidance, digital safety, and family health.

Based on the above - described considerations, we tested a theoretical model (Fig. 1) in which the association between self - esteem and depressive symptoms is partly mediated by approach and avoidance motivation and social factors.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective in treating depressive symptoms among adolescents (Asarnow et al. 2001; Crocker et al. 2013) and it can be used to target the negative expectations and habituated avoidance behavior as well as the social problem behavior (Asarnow et al. 2001).

Behavioural avoidance and evaluative social anxiety increased by age within the HFA / AS group, whereas behavioural avoidance decreased by age in control participants.

Given the role of OXT in modulating social motivational processes, we specifically aimed to investigate its effects on the recognition of approach - and avoidance - related facial emotions.

Moreover, we investigated a cascading mediational model, in which we focused on factors that are inherently related to self - esteem and the adolescent developmental period: approach and avoidance motivation and the social factors social contact, social problems, and social support.

For instance, parental stress seems to be associated to both anxiety and avoidance of attachment, because of the difficulties they imply in coping with distress, but in different ways: more avoidant women attribute negative distress to a characteristic of the baby and not situational factors; more anxious women make more mistakes in recognizing fear and attribute distress to physical factors, then they could show an out of sync response to the babies» distress signs (Leerkes and Siepak, 2006; for a complete review of a social cognition approach to parenting processes and behaviors, see: Jones et al., 2015a, b).

More specifically, we tested whether (1) self - esteem in early adolescence predicted depressive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood; (2) self - esteem predicted approach and avoidance motivation; (3) approach and avoidance motivation predicted social contact with peers, social problems, and social support from peers; and (4) the social factors served as mediators of the relation between approach and avoidance motivation and depressive symptoms.

In addition, we investigated a cascading mediational model in which the association between self - esteem and depressive symptoms was hypothesized to be mediated by approach and avoidance motivation and social factorIn addition, we investigated a cascading mediational model in which the association between self - esteem and depressive symptoms was hypothesized to be mediated by approach and avoidance motivation and social factorin which the association between self - esteem and depressive symptoms was hypothesized to be mediated by approach and avoidance motivation and social factors.

We extended existing research by showing that this association is mediated by avoidance motivation and social problems, but not in a cascading manner.

Social problems thus seem to function as a direct mediator between self - esteem and depressive symptoms, not in a cascading manner through avoidance motivation.

For people high in attachment anxiety, but not those high in attachment avoidance, affect partially mediated social and psychological outcomes and fully mediated health outcomes.

It can be divided into four categories: cognitive and emotional involvement (4 items; e.g., reading books, singing songs together); avoidance of restriction and punishment (2 items, including parents being too harsh in disciplining and parents excessively controlling the child); social stimulation (3 items; e.g., visiting coeval friends» houses, going to the park with the child); and social support for parenting (3 items; e.g., having someone to consult on child care, being supported in child care by someone).