A Developmental Pathway From Early Behavioral Inhibition to Young Adults’ Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zeytinoglu, Selin; Morales, Santiago; Lorenzo, Nicole E.; Chronis‐Tuscano, Andrea; Degnan, Kathryn A.; Almas, Alisa N.; Henderson, Heather A.; Pine, Daniel S.

doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2021.01.021

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“…Based on the preliminary analyses described later with covariates and missing patterns and in line with previous studies with this sample (Zeytinoglu et al, 2021), we controlled for maternal education, maternal ethnicity, and gender on the main outcomes and any variable that showed a zero-order correlation with these covariates. We used full information maximum likelihood estimation to handle missing data to reduce potential bias in the parameter estimates (Enders & Bandalos, 2001).…”

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Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety

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Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background: Social anxiety is amongst the most prevalent adolescent mental health problems; however, it is often unrecognized due to its comorbidity with other anxiety problems such as generalized anxiety. Thus, understanding the unique developmental pathways to social anxiety is critical for improving its prevention. We examined the pathway from maternal shyness, when children were 4 years old, to adolescents' social anxiety at age 15 through social wariness at age 7. We hypothesized that childhood social wariness would mediate the association between maternal shyness and social anxiety in adolescence. Methods: Participants (N = 291; 54% female) were followed from early childhood to adolescence. Mothers reported on their own shyness when children were 4 years old. Social wariness toward unfamiliar peers was observed in the laboratory at ages 4 and 7. Adolescent social anxiety and generalized anxiety were assessed via self-report, parent-report, and clinical diagnoses at age 15. Results: Maternal shyness was positively associated with adolescent social anxiety but not generalized anxiety at age 15. Higher levels of maternal shyness at age 4 predicted greater social wariness at age 7, which in turn predicted greater social anxiety but not generalized anxiety at age 15. Social wariness at age 7 partially mediated the association between maternal shyness and adolescent social anxiety. Conclusions: This study identifies a unique developmental pathway from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety. Findings suggest that childhood social wariness connects maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety.

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Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety

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“…Indeed, negative mental health effects have already been linked to home confinement among Chinese children [ 2 ] and an increased rate of suicide ideation has been observed during the pandemic among North American adolescents [ 6 ]. Recently, a stable pattern of behavioral inhibition in childhood has been shown to predict heightened anxiety in adults facing the pandemic [ 7 ].…”

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Mental health-related visits in a pediatric emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic

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We aimed to describe the epidemiology of all pediatric emergency department visits (focusing on mental health-related visits versus total visits) at the University Children’s Hospital of Nice (France) from 1 January to 31 December 2020 (year of the COVID-19 pandemic) and to compare it with the earlier 3-year period. The increase in mental health-related visits (44.2%) that we observed, while total visits decreased (30.0%), suggests an impact of the pandemic on children’s and adolescents’ mental health.

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“…However, as individuals adapted to the life changes and restrictions were gradually eased, mental health improved. Based on these recent studies and the first assessments of our own data (Lorenzo et al, 2021;Zeytinoglu et al, 2021), we hypothesize that COVID-related worries, perceived stress, and anxiety will decrease across the months sampled early on during the pandemic.…”

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Which anxious adolescents were most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic?

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The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated restrictions caused significant stress and anxiety among many, but individual effects of the pandemic vary widely. We examine if specific forms of anxiety (generalized vs. social) predict distinct trajectories of anxiety, perceived stress, and COVID-related worries during three early months of the pandemic. As part of a longitudinal study (N=291), adolescents’ (n=194) levels of social and generalized anxiety were assessed via parent- and self-reports and clinical diagnostic interviews. In young adulthood (n=164), anxiety, stress, and COVID-related worries were assessed three times during the pandemic. Pre-pandemic generalized anxiety predicted higher initial levels and maintenance of anxiety, stress, and COVID-related worries during the pandemic. In contrast, pre-pandemic social anxiety predicted lower initial levels of anxiety, stress, and COVID-related worries followed by increases in anxiety and stress. Our results highlight the importance of understanding how pre-pandemic psychological factors influence individuals’ responses to the pandemic.

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A Developmental Pathway From Early Behavioral Inhibition to Young Adults’ Anxiety During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety

Pathways from maternal shyness to adolescent social anxiety

Mental health-related visits in a pediatric emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic

Which anxious adolescents were most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic?

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