Elevated Social Anxiety among Early Maturing Girls

Autor/inn/en	Blumenthal, Heidemarie; Leen-Feldner, Ellen W.; Babson, Kimberly A.; Gahr, Jessica L.; Trainor, Casey D.; Frala, Jamie L.
Titel	Elevated Social Anxiety among Early Maturing Girls
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 4, S.1133-1140 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0024008
Schlagwörter	Maturity (Individuals); Females; Psychopathology; Etiology; Puberty; Anxiety; Correlation; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Gender Differences; Age; Prevention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reifung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Psychopathologie; Ätiologie; Pubertät; Angst; Korrelation; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Geschlechterkonflikt; Alter; Lebensalter; Prävention; Vorbeugung
Abstract	Adolescence is a key period in terms of the development of anxiety psychopathology. An emerging literature suggests that early pubertal maturation is associated with enhanced vulnerability for anxiety symptomatology, although few studies have examined this association with regard to social anxiety. Accordingly, the current study was designed to further elucidate the relation between pubertal timing and social anxiety, with a focus on clarifying the role of gender. Participants were 138 adolescents (ages 12-17 years) recruited from the general community. Level of social anxiety was examined as a function of gender and within-sample pubertal timing. As expected, early maturing girls evidenced significantly higher social anxiety, compared with on-time girls and early maturing boys, and no other differences were found as a function of gender or developmental timing. Findings and future directions are discussed in terms of forwarding developmentally sensitive models of social anxiety etiology and prevention. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure and 2 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10