Specificity of peer difficulties to social anxiety in early adolescence: categorical and dimensional analyses with clinical and community samples

Early, Martha C.; Biggs, Bridget K.; Makanui, Kalani P.; Legerski, John Paul; Allen, Jason Van; Elledge, Allison R.; Whiteside, Stephen P.

doi:10.1080/10615806.2017.1348296

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“…For example, in Gren-Landell et al [39], socially phobic adolescents showed significantly higher rates of lifetime victimization from peers/siblings than not socially phobic adolescents. This is in line with results of other studies [42,43,44,46,48,49,50,56,58,59,60].…”

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“…The aim of the cross-sectional quantitative survey by Early et al [56] was to investigate the possible association between social anxiety and other anxiety disorder with peer acceptance or victimization in a clinical sample ( n = 154) compared to a community sample ( n = 116) of adolescents (mean age: 13.07). Results showed that the social anxiety group presented lowest social acceptance compared to other anxiety group and the community sample.…”

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Peer Victimization and Onset of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents

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Background: In the literature, several studies have proposed that children and adolescents with social anxiety had experienced previously victimization from peers and siblings. The aim of this review was to contribute to the updating of recent findings about the relationship between peer victimization and onset of social anxiety in children and adolescents. Methods: A selective review of literature published between 2011 and 2018 on Social Anxiety Disorder in children and adolescents that experienced peer victimization during childhood and adolescence. Results: Seventeen studies are included. All studies showed that peer victimization is positively correlated to the presence of social anxiety. Moreover, the perpetration of peer victimization may contribute to the maintenance and the exacerbation of social anxiety symptoms. Conclusions: In children and adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder, it is necessary to evaluate firstly the presence of peer victimization experiences. Subsequently, therapeutics programs targeted to elaborate these experiences and to reduce the anticipatory anxiety and the avoidance that characterized these children and adolescents can be proposed.

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Peer Victimization and Onset of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents

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“…While it was expected that adolescents with SAD symptoms would experience communication difficulties (e.g., de Lijster et al, 2018), GAD symptoms were also related to perceived social impairment. For the boys in this study, the risk associated with GAD was as high as that associated with SAD relative to adolescents with normative levels of anxiety This is consistent with previous findings indicating that adolescents with non-SAD anxiety disorders may show dysfunction in peer relationships, a greater degree of social impairment, and less social acceptance than their healthy peers (Brumariu et al, 2013;Early et al, 2017;Essau et al, 2000). Evidence from neurobiological research showing that neural activity during social interactions…”

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Associations of generalized anxiety and social anxiety with perceived difficulties in school in the adolescent general population

Kajastus,

Haravuori,

Kiviruusu

et al. 2023

Journal of Adolescence

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IntroductionGeneralized anxiety disorder (GAD), marked by excessive worry, and social anxiety disorder (SAD) are among the clinically most important anxiety disorders in the adolescent population. This study aimed to explore the associations between perceived difficulties in school and heightened levels of self‐reported noncomorbid and comorbid GAD and SAD symptoms.MethodsSurvey data of 37,905 Finnish upper secondary school students with a mean age of 17.33 years (SD = 0.63) were obtained from the School Health Promotion study, implemented in April and May 2015 in Finland. Exploratory factor analysis was used to determine indicators of academic and social difficulties in school. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine multivariate associations between anxiety symptoms and difficulties in the school. The anxiety symptom thresholds were based on the seven‐item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (≥10 points) for GAD‐related symptoms and the Mini‐SPIN (≥6 points) for SAD‐related symptoms.ResultsSelf‐reported generalized anxiety and social anxiety were both significantly associated with various perceived difficulties in school among this adolescent general population sample. Noncomorbid and comorbid GAD and SAD symptoms were both associated with an increased risk of academic and social difficulties, even when controlling for school performance. Comorbid symptoms were associated with significantly higher rates of social difficulties than noncomorbid symptoms of GAD or SAD. Furthermore, GAD symptoms were associated with a high risk for academic difficulties, irrespective of comorbidity.ConclusionsExcessive worry, a defining feature of GAD, is central to school‐related impairments among adolescents. The present study highlights the importance of school‐based interventions for anxious adolescents. Interventions to improve adolescents'; school functioning should account for the interference of pathological worry related to GAD.

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“…Previous studies have shown that sleep might be a modifiable risk factor in prevention of several mental health problems in adolescence (19,20).…”

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Direct Relationship Between Sleep Disorder and Depression Severity in Iranian Adolescents

Pirdehghan¹,

Babaveisi²,

Panahi³

2020

Iran J Pediatr

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Background: Sleep pattern is one of the most important issues which can affect mental development in adolescents. Objectives: This study was designed to asses sleep pattern and its relationship with depression in order to obtain information for planning interventional programs and health promotion in adolescents. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted on high school students in Hamadan, Iran in 2019. Mean age of the students was 16.53 ± 0.69 years (Min - Max: 15 - 19), and 290 (50.3%) students were girls. Samples were selected by multiple cluster sampling method in which 576 students were enrolled in the study. Two standard, valid and reliable self-reported questionnaire was used for recording sleep pattern (PSQ) and depression (Beck). After data collection, SPSS was used for data analysis. All P values less than 0.05 were considered as significant. Results: Nearly 70% of the adolescents had problems in some subscales of sleep disorder included in mental quality of sleep, delay in falling asleep and daily dysfunction. Among them in 10% sleep duration was less than 5 hours and in 69% usual bedtime was after midnight (24 o’clock). Severe sleep problem in boys and students with fine educational status was more than others (P value < 0.001) and there was a statically significant correlation between sleep disorder and depression score (Pearson correlation: r = 0.42; P < 0.001) and in students with severe sleep disorder, 48.9% were severely depressed. Conclusions: Problems in mental quality of sleep was notable in Iranian adolescents, almost half of them had some degree of depression symptoms. Being boy and having severe problem in sleep pattern were predictors for depression. This information might be applied for well-being as well as physical and mental development interventional programs such as sleep health screening and adolescents and their parents’ educational programs in adolescents’ health promotion sector.

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Specificity of peer difficulties to social anxiety in early adolescence: categorical and dimensional analyses with clinical and community samples

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

Peer Victimization and Onset of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Peer Victimization and Onset of Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents

Associations of generalized anxiety and social anxiety with perceived difficulties in school in the adolescent general population

Direct Relationship Between Sleep Disorder and Depression Severity in Iranian Adolescents

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