Individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) experience substantial impairment in close and intimate relationships. To enhance our understanding of this impairment and the way it develops, we examined dyadic opposite sex interactions of individuals with and without SAD. Participants were 160 individuals who formed 80 dyads including either 1 individual with SAD and another nonsocially anxious (NSA) individual (42 experimental dyads), or 2 NSA individuals (38 control dyads). We examined self- and partner-ratings of authenticity of both partners at 3 time points over the course of the 30-min interaction. Multilevel linear models indicated that individuals with SAD reported lower self-authenticity compared to NSA individuals (both compared to their interaction partners and compared to those from control dyads). In addition, increases in self-authenticity during the interaction were significantly lower for the experimental dyads compared to the control dyads. Specifically, both individuals with SAD and their NSA partners experienced lower increases in self-authenticity compared to NSA individuals from the control dyads. We also found that individuals with SAD rated their partners as less authentic compared to both their NSA interaction partners as well as NSA individuals from the control dyads. We discuss our findings in the context of cognitive and interpersonal models and suggest that authenticity may contribute to deleterious maintaining processes of SAD. Clinical implications of our findings are also discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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你有多真实？社交焦虑症的自我和伴侣真实性。

社交焦虑症（SAD）的个人在亲密关系中遭受重大损害。为了增强我们对这种障碍及其发展方式的理解，我们检查了患有或未患有SAD的个体的二元对异性互动。参与者为160个个体，形成80个双体，包括1个SAD个体和另一个非社会焦虑（NSA）个体（42个实验双体）或2个NSA个体（38个对照双体）。在30分钟的互动过程中，我们在3个时间点检查了两个伙伴的真实性的自我和伙伴评级。多级线性模型表明，与NSA个体相比，SAD个体的自我真实性较低（两者均比其相互作用伴侣和对照双性体的个体真实性低）。此外，与对照二联体相比，实验二联体在交互过程中自我真实性的提高明显更低。具体来说，与对照组相比，具有SAD的个体及其NSA伴侣的真实性都有较低的提高。我们还发现，与他们的NSA互动伙伴以及对照双联的NSA个体相比，具有SAD的个体对他们的伴侣的真实性评价较低。我们讨论在认知和人际关系模型的背景下我们的发现，并建议真实性可能有助于SAD的有害维护过程。我们的研究结果的临床意义也进行了讨论。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。