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Does social anxiety increase with age?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2016

Marilyn Anne Campbell
Marilyn Anne Campbell*
Affiliation:
Gold Coast North School Support Centre
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Gold Coast North School Support Centre, P.O. Box 1905, SOUTHPORT QLD 4215
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One of the impressions in the literature on children's social anxiety is that young (preadolescent) children are not socially anxious and that social anxiety begins to manifest itself at adolescence and then increases with age. However there seems to be little direct research evidence to substantiate this claim. A questionnaire to assess feared outcomes in children and adolescents was therefore administered to 1415 children between the ages of 6 and 16 years. The results showed that worry about social threat did not increase with age and the content of the feared social outcomes also remained relatively constant over the age span.

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , November 1996 , pp. 43 - 52
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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