PMID- 20614147
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110114
LR  - 20211020
IS  - 1435-165X (Electronic)
IS  - 1018-8827 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 10
DP  - 2010 Oct
TI  - Social anxiety level in Turkish adolescents.
PG  - 765-72
LID - 10.1007/s00787-010-0119-3 [doi]
AB  - Social phobia is a mental disorder characterized by extreme and consistent fear 
      of meeting new people, scrutiny in a variety of performance and/or interactional 
      situations. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of self-reported 
      social anxiety in a community sample of Turkish adolescents and the relationship 
      between social anxiety and some sociodemographic parameters. This study was a 
      school-based cross-sectional study. Students in grades 6-8 (aged 10-16) from 12 
      schools in Kocaeli/Turkey were screened by the Social Anxiety Scale for 
      Adolescents (SAS-A). The correlations of sociodemographic parameters with the 
      SAS-A scores were examined. Data from a sample of 1,713 students (865 boys 50.4% 
      and 848 girls 49.5%) were analyzed. A significant gender difference in the SAS-A 
      points was found. Boys reported higher SAS-A total and subscale scores (except 
      social avoidance and distress-general subscale score) than did girls. A 
      significant negative correlation was found between socioeconomic status and 
      social anxiety level. SAS-A scores were higher in those with a low socioeconomic 
      level, and who were going to rural schools. The result of this study showed that 
      social phobic symptoms among Turkish adolescents were more severe in boys. Some 
      factors such as low socioeconomic level, and going to a rural school had impact 
      on the SAS-A scores. As the impairment in the school-domain was reported to be 
      quite high, professionals and teachers need to recognize social anxiety in 
      adolescents, so that help can be offered to overcome the difficulties social 
      phobia causes.
FAU - Cakin Memik, Nursu
AU  - Cakin Memik N
AD  - Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey. nursucakinmemik@gmail.com
FAU - Sismanlar, Sahika G
AU  - Sismanlar SG
FAU - Yildiz, Ozlem
AU  - Yildiz O
FAU - Karakaya, Isik
AU  - Karakaya I
FAU - Isik, Cavit
AU  - Isik C
FAU - Agaoglu, Belma
AU  - Agaoglu B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20100708
PL  - Germany
TA  - Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
JT  - European child & adolescent psychiatry
JID - 9212296
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Chi-Square Distribution
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Phobic Disorders/diagnosis/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Students
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Turkey/epidemiology
EDAT- 2010/07/09 06:00
MHDA- 2011/01/15 06:00
CRDT- 2010/07/09 06:00
PHST- 2010/02/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/06/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/07/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/01/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s00787-010-0119-3 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 Oct;19(10):765-72. doi: 
      10.1007/s00787-010-0119-3. Epub 2010 Jul 8.