School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China.
Department of Psychology, Normal College, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2024 Mar;53(3):701-717. doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01920-5. Epub 2023 Dec 14.
As peer relationships become paramount during early adolescence, there's a normative rise in social anxiety, coinciding with a peak in peer victimization and aggression. Although previous studies have suggested reciprocal associations between changes in social anxiety and adolescent peer victimization and aggression, the mechanics of these associations at the personal trait and time-varying state levels remains unclear. This study examined the longitudinal relations between social anxiety and adolescent peer victimization and aggression by disentangling between-person trait differences from within-person state processes. A total of 4731 Chinese early adolescents (44.9% girls; M age = 10.91 years, SD = 0.72) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study with 6-month intervals. Random-intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) was applied. The results revealed higher levels of social anxiety are associated with more peer victimization and aggression at the between-person trait level. At the within-person state level, adolescent social anxiety, and adolescent physical victimization and physical aggression, reciprocally predicted each other. Relational victimization significantly predicted an increase of social anxiety, but not vice versa. Social anxiety positively predicted relational aggression over time, whereas the effect of relational aggression on social anxiety was only observed at the initial stage of early adolescence. These findings highlight that various types of victimization and aggression might exhibit unique reciprocal associations with social anxiety. Distinguishing between the within-person state and between-person trait effects is crucial in research that informs the co-development of adolescent peer victimization, aggression, and social anxiety.
随着青少年早期同伴关系变得至关重要，社交焦虑也会正常增加，同时同伴受欺凌和攻击的情况也达到高峰。虽然之前的研究表明社交焦虑的变化与青少年受欺凌和攻击之间存在相互关联，但这些关联在个人特质和时变状态水平上的机制仍不清楚。本研究通过区分个体特质差异和个体状态过程，考察了社交焦虑与青少年同伴受欺凌和攻击之间的纵向关系。共有 4731 名中国青少年（44.9%为女生；平均年龄=10.91 岁，标准差=0.72）参与了一项为期 4 次、间隔 6 个月的纵向研究。采用随机截距交叉滞后面板模型（RI-CLPM）进行分析。结果表明，个体特质水平上，社交焦虑程度较高与受欺凌和攻击的程度较高有关。在个体状态水平上，青少年社交焦虑、青少年身体受欺凌和身体攻击相互预测。关系受欺凌显著预测社交焦虑的增加，但反之则不然。社交焦虑随着时间的推移正向预测关系攻击，而关系攻击对社交焦虑的影响仅在青少年早期的初始阶段观察到。这些发现强调了各种类型的受欺凌和攻击可能与社交焦虑表现出独特的相互关联。在研究青少年同伴受欺凌、攻击和社交焦虑的共同发展时，区分个体状态和个体特质效应至关重要。
