Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) Short Form: Longitudinal Measurement Invariance in Two Community Samples of Youth

Nelemans, Stefanie A.; Meeus, Wim; Branje, Susan; Leeuwen, Karla Van; Colpin, Hilde; Verschueren, Karine; Goossens, Luc

doi:10.1177/1073191116685808

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“…The SAS-A (Nelemans et al 2017) comprises 12 items on a 5-point Likert scale from "never" to "always", consisting of factors which are social avoidance and distress-general (e.g., "I'm afraid to invite others to do things with me because they might say no"), social avoidance and distress-new (e.g., "I get nervous when I meet new people"), and fear of negative evaluation (e.g., "I worry about what others think of me"). However, the scale can be used unidimensionally (Nelemans et al 2017). The Turkish form of the scale has good structural validity (Aydın and Sütcü 2007).…”

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Psychopathological Consequences Related to Problematic Instagram Use Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Body Image Dissatisfaction and Moderating Role of Gender

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Emirtekin

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Int J Ment Health Addiction

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In a minority of cases, problematic use of technology can negatively impact on adolescents and impair some aspects of their social, emotional, and psychological development. The purpose of the present study was to examine the direct and indirect effects of problematic Instagram use (PIU) on different psychopathological outcomes including loneliness, depression, anxiety, and social anxiety via body image dissatisfaction (BID). Additionally, moderating role of gender on the relationships among variables was investigated. A total of 491 adolescents (M age = 15.92 years, SD age = 1.07; range = 14 to 19 years) were recruited for the study to complete a questionnaire that included the relevant assessment tools for the aforementioned variables. Mediation and moderation analyses showed that among male adolescents, PIU was directly associated with loneliness, depression, general anxiety, and social anxiety and BID partially mediated these associations. Among females, PIU was directly associated with depression and indirectly with general anxiety and social anxiety via BID. Gender significantly moderated the direct relationships of PIU with loneliness, general anxiety, and social anxiety. PIU was directly associated with loneliness, general anxiety, and social anxiety among males only, whereas among females, PIU was indirectly associated with general and social anxiety via BID but was not related to loneliness. Results of this study indicate that PIU has different negative psychological effects on male and female adolescents and that BID appears to be one explanatory factor for these impairments especially among females.

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Psychopathological Consequences Related to Problematic Instagram Use Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Body Image Dissatisfaction and Moderating Role of Gender

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Emirtekin

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“…The SAS-A (Nelemans et al, 2017) comprises 12 items on a 5-point Likert scale from 'never' to 'always', with three factors: fear of negative evaluation (e.g. I worry about what others think of me), social avoidance and distress-new (e.g.…”

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Psychosocial factors mediating the relationship between childhood emotional trauma and internet gaming disorder: a pilot study

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Griffiths

Billieux

2019

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has been related to a wide range of detrimental psychological and health consequences. The purpose of the present pilot study was to test the direct and indirect relationships between IGD and emotional trauma, body image dissatisfaction, social anxiety, loneliness, depression, and self-esteem. A total of 242 online gamers completed a survey comprising a comprehensive battery of psychometric self-report scales concerning aforementioned variables. Results indicated that IGD was significantly correlated with all the variables except for body image dissatisfaction. Path analysis indicated an indirect relationship between childhood emotional trauma and IGD through depressive symptoms, while adjusting for gender, age, and number of hours gaming. The findings of the present study indicate that online gamers with a history of emotional abuse and/or neglect have higher levels of depressive symptoms, and that depressive symptoms are important risk factors of IGD.

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“…Participants answer the items on a Likert‐scale from 1 (definitely not) to 5 (always). In this study, a shorter version consisting of 12 items is used (Benner & Graham, ; Nelemans et al, ).…”

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Temporal associations between social anxiety and depressive symptoms and the role of interpersonal stress in adolescents

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Background Adolescence is characterized by an increased vulnerability for internalizing psychopathologies such as depression and anxiety. A positive association between anxiety and depression has consistently been found in research. However, the specific direction of this association is less clear. In this study, we investigated the temporal associations between (social) anxiety and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, the role of dependent interpersonal stress as a potential mediating factor in these temporal associations was examined. Methods Data were part of a larger longitudinal study on the emotional development of adolescents, which was initiated in February 2013. The total sample consisted of 2011 adolescents between the ages of 11 and 19. Data were analyzed using cross‐lagged models. Results Bidirectional positive associations were found between social anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms. However, dependent interpersonal stress was not a mediator in the link between social anxiety and depression. Our results indicate that dependent interpersonal stress seems to be particularly related to depressive symptoms and not to social anxiety symptoms. Conclusions Findings suggest that bidirectional associations between social anxiety and depressive symptoms exist. This implies that clinicians should be specifically vigilant for the development of depressive symptoms in socially anxious adolescents and the development of social anxiety symptoms in depressed adolescents. Our findings further highlight the importance of targeting dependent interpersonal stress in the context of depression.

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Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) Short Form: Longitudinal Measurement Invariance in Two Community Samples of Youth

Cited by 59 publications

References 40 publications

Psychopathological Consequences Related to Problematic Instagram Use Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Body Image Dissatisfaction and Moderating Role of Gender

Psychopathological Consequences Related to Problematic Instagram Use Among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Body Image Dissatisfaction and Moderating Role of Gender

Psychosocial factors mediating the relationship between childhood emotional trauma and internet gaming disorder: a pilot study

Temporal associations between social anxiety and depressive symptoms and the role of interpersonal stress in adolescents

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