Does Parental Conflict Develop Children's Social Anxiety in Their Adolescence or Young Adulthood?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongjun Kim ◽  
Alexander Ochoa
2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie Schumacher Dimech ◽  
Roland Seiler

Social anxiety is a common psychological complaint that can have a significant and long-term negative impact on a child’s social and cognitive development. In the current study, the relationship between sport participation and social anxiety symptoms was investigated. Swiss primary school children (N=201), parents, and teachers provided information about the children’s social anxiety symptoms, classroom behavior, and sport involvement. Gender differences were observed on social anxiety scores, where girls tended to report higher social anxiety symptoms, as well as on sport activity, where boys engaged in more sport involvement. MANCOVAs with gender as covariant showed no differences in social anxiety symptoms between children involved in an extracurricular sport and those not engaged in sport participation. Nevertheless, children engaged in team sports displayed fewer physical social anxiety symptoms than children involved in individual sports.


1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Marilyn Anne Campbell

One of the impressions in the literature on children's social anxiety is that young (preadolescent) children are not socially anxious and that social anxiety begins to manifest itself at adolescence and then increases with age. However there seems to be little direct research evidence to substantiate this claim. A questionnaire to assess feared outcomes in children and adolescents was therefore administered to 1415 children between the ages of 6 and 16 years. The results showed that worry about social threat did not increase with age and the content of the feared social outcomes also remained relatively constant over the age span.


2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 774-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Reijntjes ◽  
Sander Thomaes ◽  
Paul Boelen ◽  
Menno van der Schoot ◽  
Bram Orobio de Castro ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Morales ◽  
Selin Zeytinoglu ◽  
Nicole Lorenzo ◽  
Andrea Chronis-Tuscano ◽  
Kathryn A. Degnan ◽  
...  

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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