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Anxiety Trajectories in Adolescents and the Impact of Social Support and Peer Victimization

This paper examines whether adolescents can be reliably categorized into subgroups based on their patterns of anxiety levels over time and whether low levels of social support from parents, peers, and their school, and high levels of peer victimization, predict a pattern of increasing anxiety.

Citation:
Spence SH, Lawrence D, Zubrick SR. Anxiety Trajectories in Adolescents and the Impact of Social Support and Peer Victimization. Res Child Adolescent Psychopathology. 2022

Keywords:
Adolescence; adolescent; anxiety; article; Australia; child; gender; juvenile; longitudinal study; risk factor; social support; teacher

Abstract:
This paper examines whether adolescents can be reliably categorized into subgroups based on their patterns of anxiety levels over time and whether low levels of social support from parents, peers, and their school, and high levels of peer victimization, predict a pattern of increasing anxiety.