Department of Psychology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis , MO 63130, USA.
Cogn Behav Ther. 2012;41(2):130-9. doi: 10.1080/16506073.2012.661451. Epub 2012 Mar 19.
Previous research suggests that social anxiety disorder (SAD) has a specific relationship with impairment in friendship quality; however, potential moderators of this relationship have not been tested. The current study examines whether the specific effect of SAD on friendship quality is stable or varies across gender and ethnicity in a large epidemiological dataset. Results indicate that the underlying construct of friendship quality differed slightly but significantly between men and women; as a result, effects of SAD were tested in men and women separately. After partially constraining friendship quality across ethnic groups, our results indicated that the relationship between SAD and friendship quality remained robust in all groups. In addition to replicating the finding that SAD specifically relates to perceived friendship quality, the current study highlights the need to test whether underlying constructs such as friendship quality are consistent across the groups that make up heterogeneous samples.
先前的研究表明，社交焦虑障碍（SAD）与友谊质量受损之间存在特定关系；然而，这种关系的潜在调节因素尚未得到检验。本研究在一个大型的流行病学数据集中，检验了 SAD 对友谊质量的特定影响是否在性别和种族之间稳定或变化。结果表明，友谊质量的潜在结构在男性和女性之间略有但显著不同；因此，SAD 的影响在男性和女性中分别进行了测试。在跨种族群体部分约束友谊质量后，我们的结果表明，SAD 与友谊质量之间的关系在所有群体中仍然稳健。除了重复 SAD 与感知友谊质量之间存在特定关系的发现外，本研究还强调需要检验构成异质样本的群体之间，诸如友谊质量等潜在结构是否一致。
