School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University.
Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina.
Sch Psychol. 2019 Sep;34(5):576-589. doi: 10.1037/spq0000328. Epub 2019 Jun 27.
The research examined whether clusters of loneliness and social anxiety could be identified through latent profile analysis in a longitudinal study of 892 Chinese adolescents (47.8% male), on average 12.96 (SD = 0.62) years old. Six clusters were identified: (a) low loneliness and social anxiety, (b) average loneliness and social anxiety, (c) high social anxiety and low loneliness, (d) high loneliness and low social anxiety, (e) moderate loneliness and social anxiety, and (f) high loneliness and social anxiety. Findings indicated that baseline family dysfunction and school-related stress served as risk factors for membership in the clusters representing higher levels of loneliness and social anxiety compared to the low cluster. Controlling for the baseline levels of respective outcomes, 6 clusters were differentially related to subsequent comprehensive mental health outcomes, underscoring the importance of the roles of both the loneliness and social anxiety processes in adolescents' mental health. Furthermore, these findings indicated that the interactions between social anxiety and loneliness within individuals were differentially related to levels of comprehensive mental health outcomes, implying the need for intervention programs to be tailored to the members of the specific clusters. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
该研究通过对 892 名中国青少年（47.8%为男性）的纵向研究，利用潜在剖面分析来检验孤独感和社交焦虑是否可以通过聚类来识别，这些青少年的平均年龄为 12.96 岁（标准差=0.62）。共确定了六个聚类：（a）低孤独感和社交焦虑；（b）平均孤独感和社交焦虑；（c）高社交焦虑和低孤独感；（d）高孤独感和低社交焦虑；（e）中等孤独感和社交焦虑；（f）高孤独感和社交焦虑。研究结果表明，与低聚类相比，基线家庭功能障碍和与学校相关的压力是较高孤独感和社交焦虑聚类成员身份的风险因素。在控制各自结果的基线水平后，6 个聚类与随后的综合心理健康结果存在差异相关，这突显了孤独感和社交焦虑过程在青少年心理健康中的重要性。此外，这些发现表明，个体内部社交焦虑和孤独感之间的相互作用与综合心理健康结果的水平存在差异相关，这意味着需要针对特定聚类的成员量身定制干预计划。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
