The Methodology Center, The Pennsylvania State University.
Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
J Fam Psychol. 2018 Jun;32(4):496-506. doi: 10.1037/fam0000396. Epub 2018 Apr 5.
Previous research on social anxiety has clearly identified interpersonal relationships as important for social anxiety symptoms. Few studies, however, have utilized longitudinal designs and have examined mechanisms that might explain links between negative interpersonal relationships and changes in youths' social anxiety over time. Recent models of social anxiety suggest that negative interpersonal relationships are linked to social anxiety through effects on social skills and behaviors. Using an autoregressive design and a sample of 416 two-parent families (51% female, 91% White), this study examined whether connections among parent-adolescent hostility, teacher support (6th grade), and changes in early adolescent social anxiety symptoms (6th to 8th grades) are mediated by youths' compliance with peers (7th grade). Results indicated that youths who experienced greater parent-adolescent hostility and lower teacher support engaged in greater compliance with peers. In turn, those who engaged in greater compliance with peers experienced increases in social anxiety symptoms. Significant indirect effects were substantiated for only parent-adolescent hostility. Associations were unique to adolescent social anxiety after accounting for depressive symptoms. Associations did not differ for early adolescent girls and boys. The results reveal that nuanced social processes involving social behaviors and relationships with parents and teachers have important and potentially unique implications for changes in early adolescent social anxiety symptoms. (PsycINFO Database Record
先前关于社交焦虑的研究明确指出人际关系对社交焦虑症状很重要。然而，很少有研究采用纵向设计，并考察可能解释负面人际关系与青少年社交焦虑随时间变化之间关系的机制。社交焦虑的最新模型表明，负面人际关系通过对社交技能和行为的影响与社交焦虑相关。本研究采用自回归设计和一个由 416 对有双亲家庭（51%为女性，91%为白人）组成的样本，考察了父母与青少年之间的敌意、教师支持（六年级）以及青少年早期社交焦虑症状（六年级至八年级）之间的联系是否受青少年与同伴之间的顺从性（七年级）的影响。结果表明，经历过更多父母与青少年之间敌意和较少教师支持的青少年更顺从同伴。反过来，那些更顺从同伴的青少年会经历更多的社交焦虑症状。只有父母与青少年之间的敌意才能证实显著的间接影响。在考虑了抑郁症状后，这些关联只与青少年社交焦虑有关。青少年女孩和男孩之间没有关联差异。这些结果表明，涉及社交行为以及与父母和教师关系的微妙社交过程对青少年早期社交焦虑症状的变化有重要且潜在独特的影响。
