Social anxiety in online social interactions: Examining the effects of self and audience images on anxiety, self-awareness and performance evaluations
Online videoconferencing tasks can induce anxiety and activate negative self-images and post-event evaluations of social performance. Our findings support the use of online social interactions to research social anxiety, maladaptive cognitive-behavioural biases and to develop novel interventions.
Authors
- Erich W. Graf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-4233)
- Matthew Garner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9481-2226)
- Neslihan Özhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-2458)
Institutions
- Karadeniz Technical University (TR)
- University of Southampton (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders
- Published
- 2026-01-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2026.103111
- Primary Topic
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00