Concurrent and Prospective Associations Between Social Anxiety and Responses to Stress in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Several studies have investigated the relationship between adolescents' responses to stress and general anxiety and depression, but only few studies addressed the relationship between responses to stress and social anxiety. The current three-wave longitudinal study, that covered a period of 5 years with a time interval of on average two years between waves, examined concurrent as well as prospective relations between adolescents' self-reported stress responses, including coping responses, and self-perceived social anxiety. Both the predictive power of social anxiety for different stress responses and, reversely, of stress responses for social anxiety were evaluated. Participants were 331 youth (170 boys) aged 9 to 17 years old at Wave 1. Self-report questionnaires were used to measure soci

SUBMITTER: Blote AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9054901 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature