TY - JOUR
T1 - Developmental Differences in Functioning in Youth With Social Phobia
AU - Hoff, Alexandra L.
AU - Kendall, Philip C.
AU - Langley, Audra
AU - Ginsburg, Golda
AU - Keeton, Courtney
AU - Compton, Scott
AU - Sherrill, Joel
AU - Walkup, John
AU - Birmaher, Boris
AU - Albano, Anne Marie
AU - Suveg, Cynthia
AU - Piacentini, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology.
PY - 2017/9/3
Y1 - 2017/9/3
N2 - Social phobia (SoP) in youth may manifest differently across development as parent involvement in their social lives changes and social and academic expectations increase. This cross-sectional study investigated whether self-reported and parent-reported functioning in youth with SoP changes with age in social, academic, and home/family domains. Baseline anxiety impairment data from 488 treatment-seeking anxiety-disordered youth (ages 7–17, N = 400 with a SoP diagnosis) and their parents were gathered using the Child Anxiety Impact Scale and were analyzed using generalized estimating equations. According to youth with SoP and their parents, overall difficulties, social difficulties, and academic difficulties increased with age, even when controlling for SoP severity. These effects significantly differed for youth with anxiety disorders other than SoP. Adolescents may avoid social situations as parental involvement in their social lives decreases, and their withdrawn behavior may result in increasing difficulty in the social domain. Their avoidance of class participation and oral presentations may increasingly impact their academic performance as school becomes more demanding. Implications are discussed for the early detection and intervention of SoP to prevent increased impairment over the course of development.
AB - Social phobia (SoP) in youth may manifest differently across development as parent involvement in their social lives changes and social and academic expectations increase. This cross-sectional study investigated whether self-reported and parent-reported functioning in youth with SoP changes with age in social, academic, and home/family domains. Baseline anxiety impairment data from 488 treatment-seeking anxiety-disordered youth (ages 7–17, N = 400 with a SoP diagnosis) and their parents were gathered using the Child Anxiety Impact Scale and were analyzed using generalized estimating equations. According to youth with SoP and their parents, overall difficulties, social difficulties, and academic difficulties increased with age, even when controlling for SoP severity. These effects significantly differed for youth with anxiety disorders other than SoP. Adolescents may avoid social situations as parental involvement in their social lives decreases, and their withdrawn behavior may result in increasing difficulty in the social domain. Their avoidance of class participation and oral presentations may increasingly impact their academic performance as school becomes more demanding. Implications are discussed for the early detection and intervention of SoP to prevent increased impairment over the course of development.
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U2 - 10.1080/15374416.2015.1079779
DO - 10.1080/15374416.2015.1079779
M3 - Article
C2 - 26630122
AN - SCOPUS:84949549887
SN - 1537-4416
VL - 46
SP - 686
EP - 694
JO - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
IS - 5
ER -