ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS IN ADOLESCENT SOCIAL PHOBIA

心理健康专业人士直到最近才开始意识到 令人震惊的儿童和青少年精神病的流行。一 特别是焦虑症，研究关注有限， 然而，对青少年有重大后果的是社交恐惧症。虽然研究 在青少年社交恐惧症领域非常有限，已经出现了 在过去的几年里，有过多的研究对成年人的这种疾病进行了研究 好几年了。与这种疾病的病因和维持有关的理论 往往侧重于行为、认知和生理因素。虽然 所有这三个因素(行为、认知和生理唤醒) 已经被发现与成年人的社交恐惧症有关，已经有 非常有限的研究着眼于这三个因素是否相同 与青少年的社交恐惧症有关。因此，本研究的目的是 考察行为、认知和生理唤醒在 青少年的社交恐惧症。参与者约为450名青年，13岁 至17岁和他们的父母。参与者将通过以下方式招募 传单邮寄到有年轻人在公立学校就读的父母家中 年龄在13岁到17岁之间。预计大约225到300岁的 青年将被分为三类(社交恐惧症、社交恐惧症 焦虑和正常对照)使用从诊断 访谈和问卷调查。三个不同组别的青年将被 与他们在几个认知任务上的表现进行比较(即， Stroop任务和几个记忆任务)、生理唤醒(即皮质醇 水平、心率、血压和体温)，以及行为 在两个行为角色扮演中的技能(即，对总体的贡献 正文对社交恐惧症的研究，将展开调查研究 青少年的社交恐惧症，并将提出重要的途径 为患有社交恐惧症的青少年制定有效的治疗方案。

Mental health professionals have only recently begun to appreciate the staggering prevalence of child and adolescent psychopathology. One particular anxiety disorder that has received limited research attention and, yet, has significant consequences for youth is social phobia. Although research in the area of social phobia in youth is very limited, there has been a plethora of research examining this disorder in adults over the last several years. Theories concerned with the etiology and maintenance of this disorder have often focused on behavioral, cognitive and physiological factors. Although all three of these factors (behavior, cognitions, and physiological arousal) have been found to be related to social phobia in adults, there has been extremely limited research looking at whether these same three factors are related to social phobia in youth. Thus, the purpose of the present study is to examine the role that behaviors, cognitions, and physiological arousal play in social phobia in adolescents. Participants will be approximately 450 youth, 13 to 17 years of age and their parents. Participants will be recruited through flyers mailed to the homes of parents with youth enrolled in the public schools between the ages of 13 and 17. It is expected that approximately 225-300 of the youth will be classified into one of three groups (social phobic, socially anxious, and normal controls) using information gathered from diagnostic interviews and questionnaires. Youth in the three different groups will be compared with regard to their performance on several cognitive tasks (i.e, Stroop task and several memory tasks), physiological arousal (i.e., cortisol levels, heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature), and behavioral skills during two behavioral role-plays (i.e., an contribute to the overall body of literature on social phobia, will extend the research investigating social phobia in adolescents, and will suggest important avenues for the development of effective treatment programs for youth with social phobia.