Department of Psychology, Miami University, 90 N. Patterson Avenue, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2019 Oct;50(5):764-775. doi: 10.1007/s10578-019-00881-w.
Social anxiety symptomatology is associated with disruptions in positive affect, though no study has examined deficits in responses to positive affect related to adolescent social anxiety symptoms. The present study tested whether adolescents' self-reported and observed social anxiety symptoms were uniquely associated with specific responses to positive affect. Moreover, we examined whether adolescent gender moderated these relations. Ninety adolescents (ages 11 to 18, M = 14.26, SD = 2.03; girls = 62%; white = 79%) completed self-report measures, participated in a social stressor task, and engaged in two positively-valenced interaction tasks with their female caregivers. Adolescent self-reported social anxiety symptoms were not uniquely associated with responses to positive affect. However, observed social anxiety symptoms were uniquely related to greater self-reported inhibiting positive affect responses and fewer observed positive affect maximizing behaviors. These findings highlight the need to examine self-reported and observed social anxiety symptoms in understanding associated disruptions in positive affect regulation.
社交焦虑症状与积极情绪的中断有关，但没有研究考察与青少年社交焦虑症状相关的积极情绪反应缺陷。本研究检验了青少年自我报告和观察到的社交焦虑症状是否与积极情绪的特定反应有独特的关联。此外，我们还考察了青少年性别是否调节了这些关系。90 名青少年（年龄 11 至 18 岁，M=14.26，SD=2.03；女生=62%；白人=79%）完成了自我报告测量，参与了一项社交压力任务，并与他们的女性照顾者进行了两项积极的互动任务。青少年自我报告的社交焦虑症状与积极情绪反应没有独特的关联。然而，观察到的社交焦虑症状与更大的自我报告抑制积极情绪反应和较少的观察到的积极情绪最大化行为有关。这些发现强调了需要在理解积极情绪调节的相关障碍时，同时考察自我报告和观察到的社交焦虑症状。
