title: Examining the relation between adolescent social anxiety, adolescent delinquency (abstention), and emerging adulthood relationship quality.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Social anxiety symptoms and delinquency are two prevalent manifestations of problem behavior during adolescence and both are related to negative interpersonal relationships in adolescence and emerging adulthood. This study examined the relation between social anxiety and delinquency in adolescence and the interplay between adolescent social anxiety and delinquency on perceived relationship quality in emerging adulthood.
  
  
  METHODS
  In a 10-year long prospective study (T1, n = 923; T2, n = 727; Mage T1 = 12; 49% female), we examined competing hypotheses using regression analyses: the protective perspective, which suggests social anxiety protects against delinquency; and the co-occurring perspective, which suggests social anxiety and delinquency co-occur leading to increased negative interpersonal outcomes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In adolescence, the relation between social anxiety and delinquency was consistent with the protective perspective. In emerging adulthood, consistent with the co-occurring perspective, ever-delinquents (but not delinquency abstainers) with higher social anxiety reported less perceived best friend, mother, and father support compared to delinquents with lower social anxiety. There was no interaction between anxiety and delinquency in predicting perceived conflict.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study highlights the importance of examining the relation between social anxiety and delinquency with regards to different interpersonal outcomes.
authors.affiliation: a Research Centre Adolescent Development , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mercer
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy.
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Crocetti
authors.affiliation: a Research Centre Adolescent Development , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands.|c Department of Developmental Psychology , Tilburg University , Tilburg , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meeus
authors.affiliation: a Research Centre Adolescent Development , Utrecht University , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Branje
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies
keywords: Social anxiety; abstainers; adolescence; delinquency; emerging adulthood; relationship quality