title: Elevated social anxiety among early maturing girls.
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.
authors: Department of Psychology, Arkansas Interdisciplinary Sciences Laboratory, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. hblumen@uark.edu
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authors: Blumenthal
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authors: Babson
authors: Jessica L
authors: JL
authors: Gahr
authors: Casey D
authors: CD
authors: Trainor
authors: Jamie L
authors: JL
authors: Frala
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