University of Maryland at College Park, USA.
Behav Modif. 2022 Nov;46(6):1314-1345. doi: 10.1177/01454455211054019. Epub 2021 Nov 11.
Socially anxious adolescents often endure anxiety-provoking situations using : strategies for minimizing in-the-moment distress (e.g., avoiding eye contact, rehearsing statements before entering a conversation). Studies linking safety behaviors to impaired functioning have largely focused on adults. In a sample of one hundred thirty-four 14 to 15 year-old adolescents, we tested whether levels of safety behaviors among socially anxious adolescents relate to multiple domains of impaired functioning. Adolescents, parents, and research personnel completed survey measures of safety behaviors and social anxiety, adolescents and parents reported about adolescents' evaluative fears and psychosocial impairments, and adolescents participated in a set of tasks designed to simulate social interactions with same-age, unfamiliar peers. Relative to other adolescents in the sample, adolescents high on both safety behaviors and social anxiety displayed greater psychosocial impairments, evaluative fears, and observed social skills deficits within social interactions. These findings have important implications for assessing and treating adolescent social anxiety.
社交焦虑的青少年在面对焦虑情境时，常采用一些策略来减轻当下的痛苦（例如，避免眼神接触，在进入对话前预演发言）。将安全行为与功能障碍联系起来的研究主要集中在成年人身上。在一项对 134 名 14 至 15 岁青少年的研究中，我们检验了社交焦虑青少年的安全行为水平与多个功能障碍领域之间的关系。青少年、家长和研究人员完成了关于安全行为和社交焦虑的调查，青少年和家长报告了青少年的评价性恐惧和心理社会障碍，青少年还参加了一系列旨在模拟与同龄陌生同伴进行社交互动的任务。与样本中的其他青少年相比，同时表现出高安全行为和社交焦虑的青少年在社交互动中表现出更大的心理社会障碍、评价性恐惧和观察到的社交技能缺陷。这些发现对评估和治疗青少年社交焦虑具有重要意义。
