PMID- 32664035
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210215
LR  - 20210215
IS  - 1573-2517 (Electronic)
IS  - 0165-0327 (Linking)
VI  - 274
DP  - 2020 Sep 1
TI  - The heterogeneity of social anxiety symptoms among Chinese adolescents: Results 
      of latent profile analysis.
PG  - 935-942
LID - S0165-0327(19)33550-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.003 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The main objective of the current study was to investigate the 
      symptoms of social anxiety in Chinese adolescents by conducting latent profile 
      analysis (LPA), a person-centered statistical approach, with items from the 
      Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). METHOD: In total, a sample of 2,755 
      adolescents aged 11‒19 years were recruited from six urban public schools in the 
      Beijing District and Sichuan Province, China. Latent profile analysis, regression 
      mixture modelling, and multinomial logistical regression were adopted to 
      investigate the latent profiles and profiles validity. RESULTS: A four-profile 
      model was suggested as the optimum: low group with diffuse social anxiety, 
      moderate group with difficulties in new situations, moderate group with cognitive 
      disturbance, and high group with diffuse social anxiety. With regression mixture 
      modelling, results showed a greater possibility for older adolescents and girls 
      fall into the high group with diffuse social anxiety. Finally, to examine the 
      validity and interpretability of the social anxiety profiles, two cognitive 
      factors-post-event rumination and self-focused attention-were adopted for their 
      potential to significantly predict the moderate and high group social anxiety 
      profiles. CONCLUSIONS: The current study, which was the first effort to 
      investigate the features of social anxiety among Chinese adolescents with LPA, 
      supports an innovative model of social anxiety symptoms in a large, non-Western 
      sample. Limitations and clinical implications are included.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Yu, Meng
AU  - Yu M
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental 
      Health, Department of Psychology, Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, P.R. 
      China. Electronic address: yumeng23@mail.sysu.edu.cn.
FAU - Zhou, Hui
AU  - Zhou H
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Social Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental 
      Health, Department of Psychology, Sun-Yat Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, P.R. 
      China.
FAU - Wang, Meifang
AU  - Wang M
AD  - College of Elementary Education, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, P.R. 
      China.
FAU - Tang, Xinfeng
AU  - Tang X
AD  - Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, 
      Hong Kong, P.R. China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200603
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - J Affect Disord
JT  - Journal of affective disorders
JID - 7906073
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anxiety/epidemiology
MH  - Child
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - *Fear
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Rumination, Cognitive
MH  - Schools
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chinese adolescents
OT  - Latent profile analysis
OT  - Post-event rumination
OT  - Self-focused attention
OT  - Social anxiety
COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest All the authors do not have any conflicts of 
      interest with regard to the publication of this paper.
EDAT- 2020/07/16 06:00
MHDA- 2021/02/16 06:00
CRDT- 2020/07/16 06:00
PHST- 2019/12/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/02/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/06/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/07/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/07/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/02/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0165-0327(19)33550-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Affect Disord. 2020 Sep 1;274:935-942. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.003. Epub 
      2020 Jun 3.