Interpersonal perception of social anxiety: A social relations analysis

Author(s): Wilson, J. R.

Journal/Book: J Soc Clin Psychol. 1996; 15: 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012. Guilford Publications Inc. 471-487.

Abstract: The social relations model was used to examine four basic questions in the interpersonal perception of social anxiety. Students-128 female undergraduates-performed either an anxiety-provoking or mundane task in groups of four, then rated how anxious they felt and how anxious the other members of the group appeared to be. There was both consensus and assimilation for perceptions of anxiety across conditions. There was also self-other agreement for judgments of trait anxiety in both conditions, but only significant self-other agreement for judgments of state anxiety in the anxiety-provoking condition. In both conditions, participants rated themselves as more anxious then they saw others. Although the students who were more anxious reported more empathic anxiety for the other members of their groups, they did not assume that others were also more anxious.

Note: Article Marcus DK, Sam Houston State Univ, Dept Psychol, Huntsville,TX 77341 USA

Keyword(s): SELF; OTHERS; MODEL; ANXIOUSNESS; CONSENSUS; CONSTRUCT; ACCURACY

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