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Masao Haraguchi

Bio: Masao Haraguchi is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personality disorders & Avoidant personality disorder. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 26 citations.

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TL;DR: A person with Asperger's syndrome is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities because they may prove embarrassing.
Abstract: • avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact, because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection • is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked • shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed • is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations • is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy • views self as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others • is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities because they may prove embarrassing

28 citations


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TL;DR: Little supporting evidence was found for the current specifier, generalized SAD, and the data are equivocal regarding whether to consider avoidant personality disorder simply a severe form of SAD.
Abstract: Background: This review evaluates the DSM-IV criteria of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with a focus on the generalized specifier and alternative specifiers, the considerable overlap between the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for SAD and avoidant personality disorder, and developmental issues. Method: A literature review was conducted, using the validators provided by the DSM-V Spectrum Study Group. This review presents a number of options and preliminary recommendations to be considered for DSM-V. Results/Conclusions: Little supporting evidence was found for the current specifier, generalized SAD. Rather, the symptoms of individuals with SAD appear to fall along a continuum of severity based on the number of fears. Available evidence suggested the utility of a specifier indicating a ‘‘predominantly performance’’ variety of SAD. A specifier based on ‘‘fear of showing anxiety symptoms’’ (e.g., blushing) was considered. However, a tendency to show anxiety symptoms is a core fear in SAD, similar to acting or appearing in a certain way. More research is needed before considering subtyping SAD based on core fears. SAD was found to be a valid diagnosis in children and adolescents. Selective mutism could be considered in part as a young child’s avoidance response to social fears. Pervasive test anxiety may belong not only to SAD, but also to generalized anxiety disorder. The data are equivocal regarding whether to consider avoidant personality disorder simply a severe form of SAD. Secondary data analyses, field trials, and validity tests are needed to investigate the recommendations and options. Depression and Anxiety 27:168–189, 2010. r 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

432 citations

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TL;DR: Results indicate significant linkages between parents’ caregiver burden, mental health, and perceptions of children’s stress; these in turn are significantly linked to child-parent closeness and conflict, indicating possible spillover effects for depressed parents and compensatory effects for anxious parents.
Abstract: Research confirms that the mental health burdens following community-wide disasters are extensive, with pervasive impacts noted in individuals and families. It is clear that child disaster outcomes are worst among children of highly distressed caregivers, or those caregivers who experience their own negative mental health outcomes from the disaster. The current study used path analysis to examine concurrent patterns of parents' (n = 420) experience from a national sample during the early months of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic. The results of a multi-group path analysis, organized by parent gender, indicate good fit to the data [X2(10) = 159.04, p < .01]. Results indicate significant linkages between parents' caregiver burden, mental health, and perceptions of children's stress; these in turn are significantly linked to child-parent closeness and conflict, indicating possible spillover effects for depressed parents and compensatory effects for anxious parents. The impact of millions of families sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic for an undefined period of time may lead to unprecedented impacts on individuals' mental health with unknown impacts on child-parent relationships. These impacts may be heightened for families whose caregivers experience increased mental health symptoms, as was the case for fathers in the current sample.

417 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a self-report measure, the Core Extrusion Schema measure (CES), was developed to measure aspects of self-concealment that should be related to social anxiety, including perceived present rejection, belief that one's true self would be socially rejected, attempts to hide one’s true self, and attempts to avoid scrutiny.
Abstract: Multiple sources of evidence suggest that problematic social anxiety should be related to attempts to hide aspects of the self from others, but no specific measures are available to assess this phenomenon. A self-report measure, the Core Extrusion Schema measure (CES) was developed to measure aspects of self-concealment that should be related to social anxiety, including perceived present rejection, belief that one’s true self would be socially rejected, attempts to hide one’s true self, and attempts to avoid scrutiny. In two studies with undergraduates (ns = 383 and 79), the CES was found to have good psychometric properties and relate to social anxiety as predicted. Some evidence of relation to interpersonal dysfunction above and beyond social anxiety was also observed. The CES therefore offers one avenue to assess a potential core cognitive component of impairing social anxiety, as well as the interpersonal effects of such anxiety.

62 citations

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TL;DR: Behandlungserfolge wurde anhand von “residual gain scores” und Erfolgsbewertungen durch die Patienten sechs Wochen und ein Jahr nach Ende der Therapie erfasst.
Abstract: Zusammenfassung Wer kommt, wer bleibt, wer profitiert? Die Vorhersage von Verweigerung, Drop-out, Erfolg und Ruckfall bei Kurzzeittherapie von Sozialer Phobie Die Studie untersucht Pradiktoren von Behandlungsabbruchen und -erfolg bei 287 Patienten mit Sozialer Phobie, die Behandlung in der klinischen Praxis aufsuchten. Die Patienten wurden eingeteilt in Abbrecher vor der Behandlung (16%), Abbrecher nach der kognitiven Vorbereitung (9%), Abbrecher wahrend der Behandlung (6%) und Vollender der Behandlung (69%). Die angebotene Intervention bestand aus Exposition in vivo und kognitiver Umstrukturierung in einem intensiven Format uber einen Zeitraum von 5–7 Tagen. Behandlungserfolge wurde anhand von “residual gain scores” und Erfolgsbewertungen durch die Patienten sechs Wochen und ein Jahr nach Ende der Therapie erfasst. Patienten, die an der Ein-Jahres-Katamnese teilnahmen, wurden als stabil (87%) oder verschlechtert (13%) kategorisiert. Als potentielle Pradiktoren wurden demographische und storungsbezogene V...

60 citations

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TL;DR: In a sample of 291 undergraduates, the scales from the Five Factor Avoidant Assessment (FFAvA) proved to be internally consistent and strongly related to the original FFM scales from which they were derived.
Abstract: A new self-report assessment of the basic traits of avoidant personality disorder (AVD) was developed using a general trait model of personality (Five-factor model; FFM) as a framework. Scales were written to assess maladaptive variants of 10 FFM traits found to be robustly related to AVD across a variety of methods. In a sample of 291 undergraduates, the scales from the Five Factor Avoidant Assessment (FFAvA) proved to be internally consistent and strongly related to the original FFM scales from which they were derived. The FFAvA scales also demonstrated substantial incremental validity in the prediction of existing AVD measures and indexes of social discomfort over their FFM counterparts. The FFAvA provides an opportunity to examine AVD and its correlates using smaller, more basic units of personality rather than more global symptoms that might blend these elements.

35 citations