Skip to main content
Journal cover image

Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar

Publication ,  Journal Article
Goodman, FR; Kashdan, TB; Stiksma, MC; Blalock, DV
Published in: Clinical Psychological Science
March 1, 2019

People with anxiety disorders tend to make decisions on the basis of avoiding threat rather than obtaining rewards. Despite a robust literature examining approach-avoidance motivation, less is known about goal pursuit. The present study examined the content, motives, consequences, and daily correlates of strivings among adults diagnosed with social anxiety disorder and healthy controls. Participants generated six strivings along with the motives and consequences of their pursuit. Compared with controls, people with social anxiety disorder were less strongly driven by autonomous motives and reported greater difficulty pursuing strivings. Coders analyzed strivings for the presence of 10 themes: achievement, affiliation, avoidance, emotion regulation, generativity, interpersonal, intimacy, power, self-presentation, and self-sufficiency. People with social anxiety disorder constructed more emotion regulation strivings than did controls, but they did not differ across other themes. This research illustrates how studying personality at different levels of analysis (traits, strivings) can yield novel information for understanding anxiety disorders.

Duke Scholars

Altmetric Attention Stats
Dimensions Citation Stats

Published In

Clinical Psychological Science

DOI

EISSN

2167-7034

ISSN

2167-7026

Publication Date

March 1, 2019

Volume

7

Issue

2

Start / End Page

283 / 301

Related Subject Headings

  • 1701 Psychology
 

Citation

APA
Chicago
ICMJE
MLA
NLM
Goodman, F. R., Kashdan, T. B., Stiksma, M. C., & Blalock, D. V. (2019). Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(2), 283–301. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702618804778
Goodman, F. R., T. B. Kashdan, M. C. Stiksma, and D. V. Blalock. “Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar.” Clinical Psychological Science 7, no. 2 (March 1, 2019): 283–301. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702618804778.
Goodman FR, Kashdan TB, Stiksma MC, Blalock DV. Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar. Clinical Psychological Science. 2019 Mar 1;7(2):283–301.
Goodman, F. R., et al. “Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar.” Clinical Psychological Science, vol. 7, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 283–301. Scopus, doi:10.1177/2167702618804778.
Goodman FR, Kashdan TB, Stiksma MC, Blalock DV. Personal Strivings to Understand Anxiety Disorders: Social Anxiety as an Exemplar. Clinical Psychological Science. 2019 Mar 1;7(2):283–301.
Journal cover image

Published In

Clinical Psychological Science

DOI

EISSN

2167-7034

ISSN

2167-7026

Publication Date

March 1, 2019

Volume

7

Issue

2

Start / End Page

283 / 301

Related Subject Headings

  • 1701 Psychology