title: [Comorbidity of specific and generalized social anxiety in Spanish adolescents].
abstract: The comorbidity of the social anxiety disorder, including the specific and generalized subtypes, and other psychopathological problems in adolescents is explored. For this purpose, 961 Spanish young people were evaluated (mean age = 15.63 years) by means of various self-reports that measure sociodemographical variables, competences and clinical indexes. Those with social anxiety were divided into two groups: specific and generalized. The results indicated that the adolescents with social anxiety had a higher percentage of comorbidity in the indexes that refer to anxiety and avoidance in social situations, than did the young people with other psychopathologies. The group of generalized social anxiety had a higher percentage of comorbidity than the specific social anxiety group in the majority of the clinical problems measured by the YSR/11-18 and MMPI-A. Only in eleven of the evaluated clinical indexes was the difference in comorbidity between the two groups of social anxiety significant, and the percentage of comorbidity was lower in the first group.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. izubeidat@psi.uned.es
authors.forename: Ihab
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zubeidat
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández-Parra
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sierra
authors.forename: José María
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Salinas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology