Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J Anxiety Disord. 2011 Oct;25(7):924-31. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.05.005. Epub 2011 May 24.
This cross-sectional study investigated whether anxiety and social functioning interact in their prediction of peer victimization. A structural equation model linking anxiety, social skills, and friendship quality to victimization was tested separately for children with anxiety disorders and normal comparison children to explore whether the processes involved in victimization differ for these groups. Participants were 8-14 year old children: 55 (34 boys, 21 girls) diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and 85 (37 boys, 48 girls) normal comparison children. The final models for both groups yielded two independent pathways to victimization: (a) anxiety independently predicted being victimized; and (b) poor social skills predicted lower friendship quality, which in turn, placed a child at risk for victimization. These findings have important implications for the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders and for school-based anti-bullying interventions, but replication with larger samples is indicated.
本横断面研究调查了焦虑和社交功能在预测同伴侵害方面是否存在相互作用。为了探讨这些群体在受害过程中是否存在差异，分别为患有焦虑障碍的儿童和正常对照组儿童测试了一个将焦虑、社交技能和友谊质量联系起来的结构方程模型。参与者为 8-14 岁的儿童：55 名（34 名男孩，21 名女孩）被诊断患有焦虑障碍，85 名（37 名男孩，48 名女孩）为正常对照组儿童。两个组的最终模型都产生了两条独立的受害途径：（a）焦虑独立预测受害；（b）社交技能差预测友谊质量低，而这反过来又使儿童面临受害风险。这些发现对儿童焦虑障碍的治疗和基于学校的反欺凌干预具有重要意义，但需要更大样本的复制。
