caa a22 4500 467897530 CHVBK 20180406152808.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10608-006-9017-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10608-006-9017-x Social Anxiety and Positive Outcome Expectancies on Risk-Taking Behaviors [Elektronische Daten] [Todd Kashdan, R. Collins, Jon Elhai] We examined the hypothesis that under specific conditions, socially anxious individuals may be risk-prone as opposed to risk-averse in domains such as heavy drinking, illicit drug use, unsafe sexual practices, and aggression. A college-aged sample, predominantly women, completed a series of questionnaires on social anxiety and risk-taking behavioral intentions. Results of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that positive outcome expectancies moderated relationships between social anxiety and sexual risk-taking and aggression. Socially anxious individuals expecting desirable outcomes reported the greatest risk-taking behavioral intentions. Socially anxious individuals expecting less desirable outcomes reported the least risk-taking intentions. Social anxiety interaction effects were not accounted for by other anxiety and depressive symptoms. Data suggested that social anxiety was also positively related to illicit drug use. Although preliminary, these significant findings suggest that a subset of socially anxious individuals may engage in risky activities that likely serve the purpose of regulating emotions. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Social anxiety nationallicence Risk taking nationallicence Outcome expectancies nationallicence Unsafe sex nationallicence Aggression nationallicence Kashdan Todd Department of Psychology, George Mason University, MS 3F5, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA aut Collins R. Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA aut Elhai Jon Disaster Health Institute, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA aut Cognitive Therapy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 30/6(2006-12-01), 749-761 0147-5916 30:6<749 2006 30 10608 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9017-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9017-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kashdan Todd Department of Psychology, George Mason University, MS 3F5, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Collins R. Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elhai Jon Disaster Health Institute, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cognitive Therapy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 30/6(2006-12-01), 749-761 0147-5916 30:6<749 2006 30 10608 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer