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Social Anxiety and Personality Traits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R. Martín-Santos ,
C. López-Solá ,
C. Binelli ,
E. Gelabert ,
R. Navinés ,
J.A. Crippa ,
F. Gutierrez  and
S. Subirà
R. Martín-Santos
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Neurosciences Institute, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
C. López-Solá
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Clinical Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona and IAPS, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
C. Binelli
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Clinical Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
E. Gelabert
Affiliation:
Departement of Health and Clinical Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
R. Navinés
Affiliation:
Neuropsychopharmacology, IMIM-Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
J.A. Crippa
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
F. Gutierrez
Affiliation:
Psychology, Neurosciences Institute, IDIBAPS, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
S. Subirà
Affiliation:
Department of Health and Clinical Psychology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

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The prevalence of social anxiety is estimated of 7-12% of the general population and 18% of university student. Social anxiety has a high prevalence of psychiatry and personality comorbidity. At age of 18-25 years old 80% of social anxiety cases have onset. To detect social anxiety at that age maybe important to avoid chronicity of the illness.

Aims:

To study personality traits associated with social anxiety in university students.

Methods:

We designed a cross-sectional study at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Student were recruited by an advertisement. All student signed the informed consent. We collected: Socio-demographic data, personal and family psychiatry history, and the Liebowitz Anxiety Scale (LSAS) and the Temperament and Character Inventory of Cloninger. We defined as a social anxiety group a LSAS ≥50 total score.

Results:

Five hundred ninety-one students enter in the study. Final sample after excluded those who did not filled the rating scales was 574 participants: 75% were women, mean age (SD): 22.7 (5.3), 156 (124 women/32 men), 26% had social anxiety. Eighteen percent had family and 22% personal psychiatry history. The personality profile of the social anxiety group was: high harm avoidance (HA) (p< .001), low novelty seeking (NS) (p< .001), and low self-directedness (SD) (p< .001).

By logistic regression, after corrected by sex, age, personal and family psychiatry history, HA (OR=1.118; 95%CI=1.081-1.155), NS (OR=0.954;95%CI=0.927-0.982) and SD (OR=0.957;95%CI=0.930-0.985) predicted social anxiety. R2Nagelkerke=0.442. Hosmer-Lemeshow test (p>.05).

Conclusions:

A profile of high HA, low NS and SD personality dimensions may predict those university students with social anxiety.

Type
P01-143
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 24 , Issue S1: 17th EPA Congress - Lisbon, Portugal, January 2009, Abstract book , January 2009 , 24-E531
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2009
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