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Stress Coping Abilities Of Individuals High And Low In Social Anxiety, Rita Marie Wittmer
Stress Coping Abilities Of Individuals High And Low In Social Anxiety, Rita Marie Wittmer
Master's Theses
The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of socially anxious persons' tendencies to cope with social stress and to examine the differences in the coping abilities of i ndividuals high and low in social anxiety. The differential coping potential of the cognitive coping technique reversal of affect was tested.
Sixty four {32 control, 32 treatment) college students participated in the pretest and posttest of the experiment in which they self-disclosed information in a stressful situation. Self-report, physiological and behavioral measures of anxiety were recorded. Subjects in the treatment group received the coping skills training to deal with …