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Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents

Social anxiety in adolescents has frequently been linked to negative outcomes from social interactions. The present study investigated whether socially anxious adolescents are treated negatively by their classmates and which characteristics of socially anxious adolescents could explain negative soci...

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Autores principales: Blöte, Anke W., Duvekot, Jorieke, Schalk, Rozemarijn D. F., Tuinenburg, Eveline M., Westenberg, P. Michiel
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Publicado: Springer US 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19842023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-009-9463-3
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author Blöte, Anke W.
Duvekot, Jorieke
Schalk, Rozemarijn D. F.
Tuinenburg, Eveline M.
Westenberg, P. Michiel
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Duvekot, Jorieke
Schalk, Rozemarijn D. F.
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description Social anxiety in adolescents has frequently been linked to negative outcomes from social interactions. The present study investigated whether socially anxious adolescents are treated negatively by their classmates and which characteristics of socially anxious adolescents could explain negative social responses. Classroom observations of class behavior were made during oral presentations of 94 students (60% females) in the ages of 13–18 years. Speakers’ social performance, speech quality, and nervousness during the presentation were also rated. Findings showed that the social performance of socially anxious students was a predictor of class behavior, whereas their overt nervousness was not. Surprisingly, the quality of their speech was negatively related to class behavior. Implications of these findings for the treatment of socially anxious adolescents are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29527692010-10-21 Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents Blöte, Anke W. Duvekot, Jorieke Schalk, Rozemarijn D. F. Tuinenburg, Eveline M. Westenberg, P. Michiel J Youth Adolesc Empirical Research Social anxiety in adolescents has frequently been linked to negative outcomes from social interactions. The present study investigated whether socially anxious adolescents are treated negatively by their classmates and which characteristics of socially anxious adolescents could explain negative social responses. Classroom observations of class behavior were made during oral presentations of 94 students (60% females) in the ages of 13–18 years. Speakers’ social performance, speech quality, and nervousness during the presentation were also rated. Findings showed that the social performance of socially anxious students was a predictor of class behavior, whereas their overt nervousness was not. Surprisingly, the quality of their speech was negatively related to class behavior. Implications of these findings for the treatment of socially anxious adolescents are discussed. Springer US 2009-10-20 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2952769/ /pubmed/19842023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-009-9463-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2009 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
spellingShingle Empirical Research
Blöte, Anke W.
Duvekot, Jorieke
Schalk, Rozemarijn D. F.
Tuinenburg, Eveline M.
Westenberg, P. Michiel
Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents
title Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents
title_full Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents
title_fullStr Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents
title_short Nervousness and Performance Characteristics as Predictors of Peer Behavior Towards Socially Anxious Adolescents
title_sort nervousness and performance characteristics as predictors of peer behavior towards socially anxious adolescents
topic Empirical Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2952769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19842023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-009-9463-3
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