Precursors and Correlates of Anxiety Trajectories from Late Childhood to Late Adolescence

Autor/inn/en	Letcher, Primrose; Sanson, Ann; Smart, Diana; Toumbourou, John W.
Titel	Precursors and Correlates of Anxiety Trajectories from Late Childhood to Late Adolescence
Quelle	In: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 41 (2012) 4, S.417-432 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-4416
DOI	10.1080/15374416.2012.680189
Schlagwörter	Prevention; Behavior Problems; Adolescents; Late Adolescents; Anxiety; Foreign Countries; Child Rearing; Children; Longitudinal Studies; Adjustment (to Environment); Psychological Patterns; Social Influences; Elementary School Teachers; Parents; Nurses; Severity (of Disability); Gender Differences; Personality Traits; Individual Characteristics; Family Environment; Age Differences; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Prävention; Vorbeugung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Halbstarker; Angst; Ausland; Kindererziehung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Sozialer Einfluss; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Eltern; Schweregrad; Geschlechterkonflikt; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Personality traits; Familienmilieu; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Australien
Abstract	The present research employed a prospective, multi-informant design to examine precursors and correlates of differing anxiety profiles from late childhood to late adolescence. The sample consisted of 626 boys and 667 girls who are participants in the Australian Temperament Project, a large, longitudinal, community-based study that has followed young people's psychosocial adjustment from infancy to adulthood. The present research analyzes data collected from the first 12 waves of data, from 4-8 months to 17 years. Parents, primary school teachers, maternal and child health nurses, and from the age of 11 onward, the young people themselves have provided survey data. Trajectory analyses revealed three distinct patterns of self-reported anxiety from late childhood to late adolescence, comprising low, moderate, and high (increasing) trajectories, which differed somewhat between boys and girls. A range of parent- and teacher-reported factors was found to be associated with these trajectories, including temperament style, behavior problems, social skills, parenting, negative family events, and peer relationships. Compared with male trajectories, female trajectories were associated with a greater variety of psychosocial variables (including parenting and externalizing problems), which may partially account for the higher prevalence of anxiety in adolescent girls compared with boys. Findings shed light on gender-specific pathways to anxiety and the need for comprehensive, integrative approaches to intervention and prevention programs. (Contains 5 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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