ERIC Number: EJ1270685
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 30
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-4316
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Social Anxiety-Impulsivity Subgroups and Links to Later Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence: A Latent Transition Analysis
Van Zalk, Nejra; Tillfors, Maria; Mörtberg, Ewa
Journal of Early Adolescence, v40 n9 p1397-1426 Nov 2020
A growing body of research has acknowledged the heterogeneity of subclinical social anxiety, identifying a subgroup of individuals who exhibit high levels of impulsivity. In a sample of Swedish early adolescents (N=2,509, M[subscript age]=13.64; 52.8% girls), we conducted latent transition analyses (LTA) to identify four classes of subclinical social anxiety-impulsivity across three time points. We identified a "Low Social Anxiety"-"Low Impulsivity" class, as well as a "High Anxiety"-"High Impulsivity" class for girls and boys, which had high levels of Time-4 internalizing problems. The latter class was less stable but larger for boys. There was also a more typical "High Anxiety"-"Low Impulsivity" class for both genders. Nevertheless, "Low Anxiety"-"High Impulsivity" girls and boys fared the worst in terms of both internalizing and externalizing problems later on. To our knowledge, this is the first study to adopt an LTA framework to investigate trajectories of early adolescent social anxiety-impulsivity over time.
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Conceptual Tempo, Behavior Problems, Gender Differences, Emotional Adjustment, Correlation, Guidelines, Early Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Screening Tests, Depression (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Delinquency, Severity (of Disability), Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 8
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
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