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Self-help Books for Social Anxiety

NCT03297619 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 109

Last updated 2019-11-13

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Summary

The goal of this study is to compare the efficacy and mechanisms of change of two self-help books for social anxiety in college students in a randomized controlled trial. One book is based on traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and one is based on acceptance and commitment therapy.

This study will test the following hypotheses:

Hypothesis 1: The CBT and ACT book conditions will both experience decreased social anxiety and distress. Life satisfaction and values progress will increase in both conditions.

Hypothesis 2: The CBT condition will result in greater use of reappraisal, the ACT condition will not.

Hypothesis 3: The ACT condition will result in greater use of defusion and decreased psychological inflexibility; the CBT condition will not.

Hypothesis 4: Changes in experiential avoidance and defusion will predict changes in social anxiety and values progress in the ACT condition.

Hypothesis 5: Changes in reappraisal will predict changes in social anxiety in the CBT condition. Change in values progress will be predicted by change in social anxiety in the CBT condition.

Hypothesis 6: The association between social anxiety/negative affect and values progress will decrease or disappear in the ACT condition (i.e., decoupling), and remain the same in the CBT condition.

Conditions

  • Social Anxiety

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness

Participants assigned to this condition will be asked to read this self-help book over an 8-week period.

BEHAVIORAL

The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook

Participants assigned to this condition will be asked to read this self-help book over an 8-week period (with some chapters omitted).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Utah State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael Levin, PhD · Utah State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-16
Primary Completion
2019-01-02
Completion
2019-01-02

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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