Social Anxiety-Impulsivity Subgroups and Links to Later Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence: A Latent Transition Analysis
Number of Authors: 32020 (English)In: Journal of Early Adolescence, ISSN 0272-4316, E-ISSN 1552-5449, Vol. 40, no 9, p. 1397-1426Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
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, M-age = 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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 40, no 9, p. 1397-1426
Keywords [en]
social anxiety, impulsivity, latent transition analysis, longitudinal data, person-oriented approach
National Category
Psychology Sociology
Research subject
Psychology; Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182967DOI: 10.1177/0272431620919153ISI: 000534399700001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-182967DiVA, id: diva2:1452763
Note
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The project was supported by a shared grant from FORMAS, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), Swedish Research Council (VR) and Vinnova (grant number 2012-65).
2020-07-072020-07-072022-03-23Bibliographically approved