Anxious Solitary Youth Come of Age: Interpersonal Processes Link Youth Trajectories to Adjustment in Young Adulthood

项目概要/摘要 焦虑孤独（AS）青少年是最常见的社交退缩形式，他们在熟悉的社交场合中保持孤独 背景（学校）比同龄人更经常由于社交焦虑。青年AS预测对成年人的影响深远 心理健康（焦虑、抑郁）和参与家庭和 社会（参与高等教育/工作;成就事业、收入、恋爱关系、生育）。 我们将在一项对来自NIH的230名参与者进行的年轻人随访研究中调查这些模式， 支持的纵向研究多重轨迹在安德里斯孤独的青年。该样本来自美国 公立学校，并将在拟议的研究时间23-26岁。这个样本是独一无二的，因为1）一半 的参与者最初被选为AS，另一半是人口统计学匹配的比较 （2）采用学校同伴报告的方法进行评估。我们的调查将把5年来 从三至七年级的心理社会发展数据到青年期（23-26岁）的新的多信息提供者数据。 目的1：测试青年AS轨迹（3 - 5年级）作为青年适应的预测因子（1波：23-26）。 我们假设青年高和增加的AS轨迹将预测年轻人的适应不良，包括 关系质量差，情感行为连续性，社交焦虑，发育里程碑延迟。 目的2：测试青年AS轨迹预测年轻成年人的可能性的性别差异 加强结构性改革我们假设，青年高和不断增加的AS轨迹将预测普遍的预防， 与以前的调整相比，对男女青年进行调整（目标1中规定）（无性别调整）， 研究淡化了对妇女社会参与的贡献。然而，婚姻和生育延迟 可能只发生在青年高增长AS轨迹的男性中。 目标3：测试人际关系过程作为青年AS轨迹和年轻成人之间的联系 加强结构性改革我们假设，青年同伴排斥将联系（调解）青年高和增加AS 轨迹和年轻人的适应不良，因为它限制了人际学习过程的机会 对健康发展至关重要。我们还将测试其他形式的青年和青年人作为调解人， 人际逆境（关系质量），相关的人际学习和自我发展过程。 研究结果有望：1）更新美国年轻人的适应知识与青年AS的历史; 2） 促进对患有青年AS的年轻女性的发展挑战的认识， 淡化对妇女社会参与的影响; 3）产生人际关系的新知识 将青年AS与成人适应联系起来的过程。对人际关系过程的了解有助于 预防工作，使家庭，教育机构和工作场所能够促进包容，健康， 和弱势群体的发展。这项研究将为未来的R 01提供初步数据。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Youth with anxious solitude (AS), the most common form of social withdrawal, remain alone in familiar social contexts (school) more often than peers due to social anxiety. Youth AS forecasts profound impacts on adult mental health (anxiety, depression) and delays in adult developmental milestones for participation in family and society (participation in higher education/work; achieving a career, income, romantic partnership, procreation). We will investigate these patterns in a young adult follow-up study of the 230 participants from the NIH- supported longitudinal study Multiple Trajectories in Anxious Solitary Youth. This sample was drawn from US public schools and will be age 23-26 at the time of the proposed study. This sample is unique because 1) half of participants were originally selected for AS and the other half were demographically-matched comparison children, 2) AS was assessed with school-based peer reports. Our investigation will connect 5 yrs of existing data on psychosocial development in 3rd-7th grade to new multi-informant data in young adulthood (age 23–26). Aim 1: Test youth AS trajectories (3rd-5th grade) as predictors of young adult adjustment (1 wave: 23-26). We hypothesize youth high and increasing AS trajectories will predict young adult maladjustment, including poor quality relationships, affective-behavioral continuity, social anxiety, delayed developmental milestones. Aim 2: Test gender differences in the likelihood that youth AS trajectories predict young adult adjustment. We hypothesize that youth high and increasing AS trajectories will predict pervasive detriments to young adult adjustment (specified in Aim 1) for both sexes (no gender moderation), in contrast to previous research downplaying detriments to women's societal participation. However, marriage and procreation delays may occur only in men with youth high-increasing AS trajectories. Aim 3: Test interpersonal processes as links between youth AS trajectories and young adult adjustment. We hypothesize that youth peer exclusion will link (mediate) youth high and increasing AS trajectories and young adult maladjustment because it limits opportunity for interpersonal learning processes critical to healthy development. We will also test as mediators additional forms of youth and young adult interpersonal adversity (relationship quality), related interpersonal learning and self-development processes. Results promise to 1) update knowledge of adjustment in American young adults with youth histories of AS; 2) facilitate recognition of developmental challenges in young women with youth AS, counteracting the tendency to downplay impacts on women's societal participation; and 3) generate new knowledge of interpersonal processes that link youth AS to adult adjustment. Knowledge of interpersonal processes promises to inform prevention efforts and enable families, educational institutions, and workplaces to foster the inclusion, health, and development of their vulnerable members. This research will provide preliminary data for a future R01.