Open AccessSocial Anxiety and Response to Touch
Author(s) -
Amanda Ludlow,
Hannah Roberts,
Roberto G. Gutierrez
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sage open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 2158-2440
DOI - 10.1177/2158244015580854
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , autism , social anxiety , sensation , clinical psychology , sensation seeking , developmental psychology , subclinical infection , fear of negative evaluation , population , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , neuroscience , personality , social psychology , environmental health
Subclinical autism-related traits have been shown in the generalpopulation to be independently related to both social anxiety and sensory sensitivity.The present study examined the relationship between autistic traits as measured by theAutism Quotient (AQ) and its relationship to social anxiety and tactile sensationabnormalities. One hundred and seventy-three female university students completed theAQ, the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS), and the touch subscale of theAdult/Adolescent Sensory Profile. Results revealed that the relationship between socialanxiety and tactile sensation abnormalities to be fully mediated by the level ofautistic traits. Of the two subscales forming the LSAS (anxiety and avoidance), theavoidance score related more strongly to tactile sensation abnormalities and was againfound to be moderated by the AQ
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