The Psychological Effects of Social Anxiety on Undergraduate Students
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2024 | Viewed by 506
Special Issue Editors
Interests: emotional processing; social anxiety
Interests: cognitive neuroscience (language processing, memory, visual cognition); statistical methods and data analysis (text mining techniques and corpora analysis)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to DSM-V, social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most prevalent anxiety disorders among young people, and it is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. There are also concerns regarding the “hidden population” who experiences SA yet does not meet the clinical criteria for a diagnosis of SAD. These young adults, who constitute a far from negligible proportion of social anxiety sufferers, may also experience significant disturbances in their lives. In higher educational institutions, SA levels can pose significant and multiple challenges to the university student. Speaking in front of others or participating in social activities are essential academic skills, and SA will promote maladjustments and impairments with consequences on academic performance, increasing the risk of dropout, which, in the long term, may lead to being dependent on family or community, and reducing the quality of life. We believe that the social isolation measures imposed to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 might have exacerbated the existing levels of SA in the academic context. It seems to us that traditional, cross-cutting, and self-report methods might not have sufficient sensitivity to capture the heterogeneity of subclinical SA experiences. In self-reports, we do not know if subjects usually report actual feelings, emotions, and thoughts or what they think they would feel or think if the scenario were real. In this context, further research is warranted that explores the subthreshold SA experiences in undergraduate students, using behavioral and experimental paradigms (psychophysiological methods, virtual reality, fMRI, eye-tracking). Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue.
Dr. Ana Teresa Martins
Dr. Luís Miguel Faísca
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- social anxiety
- subclinical population
- undergraduate students
- multi-method research
- social isolation
