Ansiedad social en una muestra de jóvenes españoles: características demográficas y psicosociales

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the differences and similitudes between social anxiety disorder adolescents and others with and without psychopathologies. A sample of 1,012 Spanish youth (13-19 ages) was e valuated at school, measuring demographic aspects, social anxiety, psychosocial competences and distinct clínical problems through different instruments. The three groups were established concerning of quantitative criterions related with the assessment tests. The results showed significance differences between the three groups in some demographic variables and psychosocial competences. The two psychopathological groups punctuated significantly, more high than the normal one, in all the clínical indexes, except in the MMPI-A Hysteria scale. The social anxiety group had a significantly worse level than the rest in all the indexes related with social interaction. The group with other psychopathologies overcame the social anxiety one in the majority of YSR/11-18 indexes and in five of the MMPI-A indexes. It concludes that the two psychopathological groups present a certain similitude, because the differences between them were smaller than differences with normal subjects.