Sentences with phrase «social anxiety trajectory»

Second, adolescents following a high social anxiety trajectory can be discriminated from peers belonging to a less anxious trajectory, based on their self - reported cognitions and observed social behavior in a laboratory task and in the classroom.

We expected negative interpretations, self - focused attention, nervousness, social problems, neuroticism, behavioral inhibition, and social withdrawal to be positively associated with a high social anxiety trajectory whereas self - evaluation of performance, social skills, and extraversion would be negatively associated.

However, we tested for differences in the number of boys and girls in the social anxiety trajectory groups, checked for gender differences on the cognition, social competence and temperament variables and controlled for gender in the analyses differentiating social anxiety trajectory groups on the basis of these variables.

The findings suggest that cognition and social competence variables may be reliably used to identify adolescents at risk of belonging to a high social anxiety trajectory.

Findings indicate that adolescents at risk of belonging to a high social anxiety trajectory can be discriminated from peers belonging to a less anxious trajectory using both cognition and social competence variables.

And (2) which of the cognition, social competence, and temperament variables discriminate between the social anxiety trajectories?

In conclusion, the present study adds to the existing social anxiety literature by identifying, for the first time, social anxiety trajectories during the adolescent period.

Our sample size was not large enough to test whether boys and girls possibly follow different social anxiety trajectories.

In this study we examined three individual level variables, namely cognition, social competence, and temperament, which are theoretically and empirically related to social anxiety and may discriminate between social anxiety trajectories.

Not exact matches

This cohort - sequential study examined developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample (N = 331, 161 girls) aged 9 to 17 years at initial and 12 to 21 years at final assessment.

In relation to the first research question, because the available studies to date have mainly dealt with a different type of anxiety and / or investigated a different age group (Broeren et al. 2011; Duchesne et al. 2010; Feng et al. 2008; Marmorstein et al. 2010) it was difficult to formulate a hypothesis regarding the number of trajectories of social anxiety.

For the sake of simplicity we will refer to the trajectories as high, moderate and low when reporting on the relations between trajectories of social anxiety and the cognition, social competence, and temperament variables.

In answer to the first research question if it is possible to identify distinct longitudinal trajectories of social anxiety across the adolescent and emerging adulthood period, 9 to 21 years, our findings show that three trajectories of social anxiety can be identified.

Second, we examined whether conceptually relevant cognition, social competence, and temperament variables could discriminate between trajectories of social anxiety.

In sum, trajectory studies point to four or five heterogeneous groups for either generalized or social anxiety symptoms when studied in childhood to preadolescence.

The three trajectory groups represent high, moderate and low social anxiety levels, with increasing then decreasing high levels in the first group and a steady but small decline in the moderate and low groups.

The second research question asked which of the cognition, social competence, and temperament variables would discriminate between trajectories of social anxiety.

Consistent with previous studies, we found that (a) being less prosocial and more physically aggressive at age 10 was characteristic of those children with the high rejection trajectory; (b) being less attractive was related to higher peer rejection from age 10 to 14; and (c) boys with a high rejection trajectory showed high levels of delinquency and anxiety - depression and low levels of academic aspiration at age 16 — 17, whereas girls with a high rejection trajectory showed low levels of academic aspiration and social competence at age 16 — 17.

In the second part of the analyses, multinomial logistic regression models were used to examine which variables2 would discriminate between trajectories of social anxiety (Duchesne et al. 2010).

This longitudinal study is the first to examine developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample aged 9 to 21 years and simultaneously test whether conceptually relevant individual level variables assessing cognition, social competence, and temperament discriminated between the trajectories.

In sum, in answer to the second research question, which of the cognition, social competence and temperament variables discriminates between trajectories of social anxiety, results indicate that negative interpretations and self - focused attention discriminate both the high and the low trajectory from the moderate trajectory.

The Latent Class Growth Modeling (LCGM; Nagin 2005) technique, which has previously been used with this type of longitudinal design (Marmorstein et al. 2010), was employed to identify trajectories of social anxiety.

The longitudinal study described in this article explored different developmental trajectories of social anxiety in a nonclinical sample, spanning adolescence through emerging adulthood, using the growth mixture modeling technique.