Social anxiety-impulsivity subgroups and links to later emotional adjustment in adolescence: a latent transition analysis
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Author(s)
Van Zalk, Nejra
Tillfors, Maria
Mortberg, Ewa
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A growing body of research has acknowledged the heterogeneity of subclinical social anxiety, identifying a subgroup of individuals who exhibit high levels of impulsivity. In a sample of Swedish early adolescents (N = 2,509, Mage = 13.64; 52.8% girls), we conducted latent transition analyses (LTA) to identify four classes of subclinical social anxiety-impulsivity across three time points. We identified a Low Social Anxiety-Low Impulsivity class, as well as a High Anxiety-High Impulsivity class for girls and boys, which had high levels of Time-4 internalizing problems. The latter class was less stable but larger for boys. There was also a more typical High Anxiety-Low Impulsivity class for both genders. Nevertheless, Low Anxiety-High Impulsivity girls and boys fared the worst in terms of both internalizing and externalizing problems later on. To our knowledge, this is the first study to adopt an LTA framework to investigate trajectories of early adolescent social anxiety-impulsivity over time.
Date Issued
2020-11-01
Date Acceptance
2020-02-25
Citation
Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020, 9 (9), pp.1397-1426
ISSN
0272-4316
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Start Page
1397
End Page
1426
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Early Adolescence
Volume
9
Issue
9
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Subjects
Social Sciences
Family Studies
Psychology, Developmental
Psychology
social anxiety
impulsivity
latent transition analysis
longitudinal data
person-oriented approach
SELF-REGULATION
SUBSTANCE USE
RISK
DEPRESSION
SHYNESS
MODEL
PHOBIA
TRAJECTORIES
TEMPERAMENT
PERSONALITY
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 0272431620919153
Date Publish Online
2020-05-19